Principal investigator
Dr. Liang Dong is the Vikram Dalal Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU). He serves as the Director of the Microelectronics Research Center and is a Faculty Scholar of the Plant Sciences Institute at ISU. In addition, he is a member of the USDA/NSF-funded AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from the Institute of Microelectronics at Tsinghua University in 2004. His doctoral dissertation on MEMS based infrared imaging sensors won the National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in China. Before joining the faculty of ISU in 2007, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison, developing micro-optical and microfluidic devices. Dr. Dong previously held Northrop Grumman Professorship and Harpole-Pentair Professorship, and received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the PSI Faculty Scholar Award, the Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award, and the Warren B. Boast Undergraduate Teaching Award at ISU.
Dr. Dong's research centers on developing next-generation sensors and sensing systems to address challenges at the water-energy-food-health nexus. His work has broad applications in food security, precision agriculture, and health. His research group designs sensors, microelectronic devices, diagnostic tools, and other instrumentation in the broader One-Health system. Dr. Dong's research has been recognized by the Soil Science Society of America “Society Best Journal Paper Award” along with many other best paper awards at conferences and in journals. He has also delivered plenary talks on precision agriculture at prominent international conferences, such as PAG (the 2018 Plant and Animal Genome PAG XXVI, the largest Ag-genomics conference in the world).
Dr. Dong currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics, and a member of the editorial boards of several other scholarly journals.
Dr. Dong was Co-Founder and CTO of EnGeniousAg LLC from 2018-2024. The company was acquired by CropX in 2024.
Phone: 515-294-0388
Email: [email protected]
Primary office: Applied Science Complex 2 (ASC 2): Room 115A (T, R, and afternoons on MWF).
Shared office at Coover Hall: 2135 Coover: (mornings on MWF when I teach)
Scientists
Dr. Sam Xing
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Dr. Vignesh Kumar Thoomatti Haridass
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Post-docs
Dr. Nawab Singh
Doctoral students
Shihao Yin
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Jacob Eisbrenner
(Co-advised with Dr. Meng Lu) |
Raufur Rahman Khan
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Sohini Mondal
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Mohammad "Anis" Rahaman
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Zhenhao Li
(co-advised with Cheng Huang) |
Rebeka Sultana
(co-advised with Dr. Jiming Song) |
Alumini
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Ph.D. graduates
Dr. Qinming Zhang (Ph.D. 2025) Dr. Yang Tian (Ph.D. 2024) Dr. Seth Heerschap (Ph.D. 2022) Dr. Hussam Ibrahim (Ph.D. 2022) Dr. Le Wei (Ph.D. 2021) Dr. Yuncong Chen (Ph.D. 2021) Dr. Praveen Gurrala (Ph.D. 2020) Dr. Yueyi Jiao (Ph.D. 2019) Dr. Xinran Wang (Ph.D. 2019) Dr. Yifei Wang (Ph.D. 2019) Dr. Shawana Tabassum (Ph.D. 2018) Dr. Zhen Xu (Ph.D. 2018) Dr. Seval Oren (Ph.D. 2018) Dr. Qiugu Wang (Ph.D. 2017) Dr. Siming Yang (Ph.D. 2017) Dr. Peng Liu (Ph.D. 2016) Dr. Huawei Jiang (Ph.D. 2016) Dr. Depeng Mao (Ph.D. 2014) Dr. Haifeng Yang (Ph.D. 2012) M.S. Degree graduates Adnan Hossain Khan (M.S. 2025) Sung Min Kang (M.S. 2021) Carson Kneip (M.S. 2021) Matthew Davis (M.S. 2019) Ranjitha Narayanan (M.S. 2019) Xuan Qiao (M.S. 2017) Jikang Qu (M.S. 2017) Yuncong Chen (M.S. 2016) Clinton Young (M.S. 2015) Pooja Ramesh (M.S. 2010) Victor Roa Baerga (M.S. 2010) Postdoc researchers Dr. Md Tawabur Rahman (2020-2021) Dr. Satyanarayana Moru (2018-2019) Dr. Md Azahar Ali (2014-2019) Dr. Huawei Jiang (2017-2021) Visiting professors Prof. Tongyan Tang (Visiting professor, 2009, Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China) Prof. Haiying Du (Visiting professor, 2016-2017, Dalian Minzu University, China) Others Haisong Lin (B.S. 2016, now at UCLA) Weikun Han (B.S. 2016, now at UCLA) Mingda Yang (B. S. 2016, now at Cornell) Jingyu Xie (B.S. 2015, now at University of South California) Sicong Yu (B.S. 2015, now at UC-Davis) Alexandra Bruce (B.S. 2012, now at Purdue) Eric Ng (B.S. 2011, now at Micron, Idaho) Carin Lightner (B.S. 2011, now at Cornell ) |
