Rehman Tanzeel, BSEN, HORT

Tanzeel Rehman

Assistant Professor

Biosystems Engineering / Horticulture

(334) 844-3539 

  tur0001@auburn.edu 

  

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306 Corley Building
Auburn Univ, AL 36849

Biography

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Purdue University
  • M.S. Agricultural Sciences, Dalhousie University, Canada
  • B.S. Agricultural Engineering, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 2022 – Present  Assistant Professor, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Horticulture, Auburn University
  • 2017 – 2022 Graduate Research Assistant, Purdue University
  • 2015 – 2017 Graduate Scholar, Dalhousie University, Canada
  • 2014 – 2015 Lecturer, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

HONORS & AWARDS

  • 2021 – Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, USA (USD 2000)
  • 2016-2017 Nova Scotia Innovation and Research Graduate Scholarship-M.Sc., Government of Nova Scotia, Canada. (CAD 10,000)
  • 2016-2017 Competitive Scholarship for Research in Wild Blueberry Industry, Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries, New Brunswick, Canada (CAD 22,500)
  • 2015-2016 Nova Scotia Innovation and Research Graduate Scholarship-M.Sc., Government of Nova Scotia, Canada. (CAD 10,000)
  • 2015-2016 International Graduate Student Entrance Scholarship award, Dalhousie University, Canada (CAD 6,000)
  • 2015-2016 Gordon B. Kinsman Memorial Graduate Scholarship, Dalhousie University, Canada (CAD 1,500)
  • 2016 Travel Grant, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University, Canada (CAD, 500)
  • 2014 Two Gold Medals (Class of 2013), Agricultural Engineering, University of Agriculture, Pakistan (awarded annually to 1st student in Agricultural Engineering undergraduate program. Total strength = 140)
  • 2013 Outstanding Undergraduate Student (Class of 2013), Agricultural Engineering, University of Agriculture, Pakistan
  • 2009-2013 Dean’s List (all semesters), Agricultural Engineering, University of Agriculture, Pakistan

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • American Society of Agriculture and Biological Engineers
  • American Society for Horticultural Science
  • Canadian Society of Biological Engineers
  • Pakistan Society of Agricultural Engineers

Research

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision
  • Automation
  • Robotics
  • Precision Horticulture

Courses

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Publications

  • Khan, M. U., ur Rehman, M. M., Sultan, M., Rehman, T. U., Sajjad, U., Yousaf, M., & Asif, M. (2022). Key prospects and major development of hydrogen and bioethanol production. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 47(62), 26265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.06.224
  • Rehman, T. U., Zhang, L., Ma, D., & Jin, J. (2022). Common Latent Space Exploration for Calibration Transfer across Hyperspectral Imaging-Based Phenotyping Systems. Remote Sensing, 14(2), 319. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14020319
  • Ma, D., Rehman, T. U., Zhang, L., Maki, H., Tuinstra, M. R., & Jin, J. (2021). Modeling of Environmental Impacts on Aerial Hyperspectral Images for Corn Plant Phenotyping. Remote Sensing, 13(13), 2520. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13132520
  • Ma, D., Rehman, T. U., Zhang, L., Maki, H., Tuinstra, M. R., & Jin, J. (2021). Modeling of diurnal changing patterns in airborne crop remote sensing images. Remote Sensing, 13(9), 1719. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091719
  • Rehman, T. U., Ma, D., Wang, L., Zhang, L., & Jin, J. (2020). Predictive spectral analysis using an end-to-end deep model from hyperspectral images for high-throughput plant phenotyping. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 177, 105713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2020.105713
  • Rehman, T. U., Zhang, L., Ma, D., Wang, L., & Jin, J. (2020). Calibration transfer across multiple hyperspectral imaging-based plant phenotyping systems: I–Spectral space adjustment. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 176, 105685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2020.105685
  • Rehman, T. U., Zhang, L., Wang, L., Ma, D., Maki, H., Sánchez-Gallego, J. A., Mickelbart, M. V., & Jin, J. (2020). Automated leaf movement tracking in time-lapse imaging for plant phenotyping. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 175, 105623. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2020.105623
  • Wang, L., Jin, J., Song, Z., Wang, J., Zhang, L., Rehman, T. U., Ma, D., Carpenter, N., & Tuinstra, M. R. (2020). LeafSpec: An accurate and portable hyperspectral corn leaf imager. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 169, 105209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2019.105209
  • Wang, L., Duan, Y., Zhang, L., Rehman, T. U., Ma, D., & Jin, J. (2020). Precise Estimation of NDVI with a Simple NIR Sensitive RGB Camera and Machine Learning Methods for Corn Plants. Sensors, 20(11), 3208. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20113208
  • Zhang, L., Wang, L., Wang, J., Song, Z., Rehman, T. U., Bureetes, T., Ma, D., Chen, Z., Neeno S., & Jin, J. (2019). Leaf Scanner: A portable and low-cost multispectral corn leaf scanning device for precise phenotyping. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 167, 105069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2019.105069
  • Khan, M. U., & Rehman, T. U. (2019). Early trends, current status and future prospects of farm mechanization in Asia. Agricultural Engineering International: CIGR Journal, 21(3), 76-87.
  • Ma, D., Carpenter, N., Maki, H., Rehman, T. U., Tuinstra, M. R., & Jin, J. (2019). Greenhouse environment modeling and simulation for microclimate control. Computers and electronics in agriculture, 162, 134-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2019.04.013
  • Rehman, T. U., Zaman, Q. U., Chang, Y. K., Schumann, A. W., & Corscadden, K. W. (2019). Development and field evaluation of a machine vision based in-season weed detection system for wild blueberry. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 162, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2019.03.023
  • Zhang, L., Maki, H., Ma, D., Sánchez-Gallego, J. A., Mickelbart, M. V., Wang, L., Rehman, T. U., & Jin, J. (2019). Optimized angles of the swing hyperspectral imaging system for single corn plant. Computers and electronics in agriculture, 156, 349-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2018.11.030
  • Rehman, T. U., Mahmud, M. S., Chang, Y. K., Jin, J., & Shin, J. (2019). Current and future applications of statistical machine learning algorithms for agricultural machine vision systems. Computers and electronics in agriculture, 156, 585-605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2018.12.006
  • Rehman, T. U., Zaman, Q. U., Chang, Y. K., Schumann, A. W., Corscadden, K. W., & Esau, T. J. (2018). Optimising the parameters influencing performance and weed (goldenrod) identification accuracy of colour co-occurrence matrices. Biosystems Engineering, 170, 85-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2018.04.002
  • Chang, Y. K., Zaman, Q. U., Rehman, T. U., Farooque, A. A., Esau, T., & Jameel, M. W. (2017). A real-time ultrasonic system to measure wild blueberry plant height during harvesting. Biosystems engineering, 157, 35-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2017.02.004
  • Rehman, T. U., Khan, M. U., Tayyab, M., Akram, M. W., & Faheem, M. (2016). Current status and overview of farm mechanization in Pakistan–A review. Agricultural Engineering International: CIGR Journal, 18(2), 83-93.
  • Ghafoor, A., Rehman, T. U., Munir, A., Ahmad, M., & Iqbal, M. (2016). Current status and overview of renewable energy potential in Pakistan for continuous energy sustainability. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 60, 1332-1342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2016.03.020

SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPTS

  • Rehman, T. U., Zhang, L., Ma, D., & Jin, J. Deep adversarial domain adaptation for calibration transfer among plant phenotyping systems. Biosystems Engineering (Under review).
  • Zhang, L., Jin, J., Wang, L., Rehman, T. U., Ma, D., & Gee, T. M. Eliminating crop leaf angle impacts on plant reflectance using fusion of hyperspectral images and 3D point clouds. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (Under review).

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Chang, Y. K., & Rehman, T. U. (2017). Current and future applications of cost-effective smart cameras in agriculture. In Robotics and Mechatronics for Agriculture (pp. 75-120). CRC Press.
  • Jin, J., Rehman, T. U., & Zhang, Q. (2022). Advances in optical analysis for crop phenotyping. In Advances in Plant Phenotyping for More Sustainable Crop Production (pp. 61-97). Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Ltd.