Prof. Yibin Ying is the Head of Agricultural Engineering Program and Agricultural Mechanization Engineering Program at Zhejiang University, Vice President of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering, Vice President of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery, and Vice President of the Zhejiang Association for Science and Technology. He was a Visiting Professor or Visiting Scientist at University of Maryland, University of Arkansas, Instrumentation and Sensing Laboratory at USDA, and Texas A&M University. Since February in 1995, he served as the Associate Dean and Dean of College of Agricultural Engineering, Executive Associate Dean of College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Executive Associate Dean of International Campus at Zhejiang University, Vice President of Zhejiang University, and President of Zhejiang A&F University. His awards and recognitions include: Cheung Kong Scholar, Distinguished Yong Scholar by National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Excellent Teacher, and National Distinguished Researcher in Agriculture, and Distinguished Expert of Zhejiang Province.

Dr. Ying’s research focuses on nondestructive sensing technology and intelligent equipment for quality and safety evaluation of agro-products. Dr. Ying’s team transferred 3 groups of core patents valued over RMB 50 million. According to Web of Science Core Collection, he received over 14000 citations(without self-citations) and with an h-index of 73. He obtained the Second Prize of National Award for Technological Invention in 2008, the First Prize of National Award for Teaching Achievement in 2009 and 2014, the Second Prize of National Award for Teaching Achievement in 2018. He was the advisor for National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2009, and the advisors for National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award Nominations in 2008, 2010, and 2011.

He was selected as an Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2021, Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2018, Executive Councillor of International Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (iAABE) in 2023, Fellow of iAABE in 2020, Fellow of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers(ASABE) in 2020, Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) in 2022, and Fellow of Association of Overseas Chinese Agricultural, Biological, and Food Engineers(AOC) in 2017.