Piyush Pandey

Piyush Pandey

PhD Candidate, Biological and Agricultural Engineering (NCSU)

Piyush received dual PhDs from NC State in Biological & Agricultural Engineering and Forestry & Environmental Resources. His projects included the use of computer vision and robotics for advancing loblolly pine breeding programs. He has a master’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he worked on the use of hyperspectral imaging for the phenotyping of maize, sorghum, and soybean. He was co-advised by Dr. Juan Acosta in the Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources.

As of November, 2022, Piyush is a ORISE postdoctoral fellow at USDA-ARS in Columbia, MO.