News & Announcements

September 22, 2026

New Digital Plant Model Connects Greenhouse Climate to Individual Leaf Growth

Our new paper is out on arXiv! 🌱"From greenhouse climate to individual leaves: an organ-resolved model of lettuce growth"Digital twins have changed how we buil…

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August 27, 2026

New Publication: KBTrack Advances Automated Inventory Management for Ornamental Nurseries

The Smart Systems Engineering Lab is excited to announce the publication of our latest research on KBTrack, an AI-driven plant tracking and counting framework …

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August 9, 2026

Four Smart Systems Engineering Lab Students Graduate

The Smart Systems Engineering Lab at Auburn University proudly celebrates the graduation of four of its students. Hamid Habib Syed successfully completed …

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July 21, 2026

Md. Mesbahul Maruf Successfully Defends M.S. Thesis

Congratulations to Md. Mesbahul Maruf on the successful defense of his M.S. thesis, "Design and Development of an Integrated In-Field Agricultural Robot for Te…

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June 30, 2026

Mohtasim Hadi Rafi Successfully Defends M.S. Thesis

Congratulations to Mohtasim Hadi Rafi on the successful defense of his M.S. thesis, "AI-Driven Machine Vision Frameworks for Ornamental Plant Nursery Inventory…

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June 25, 2026

Faraz Ahmad Defends M.S. Thesis on Specialty Crop Automation

Congratulations to Faraz Ahmad on the successful defense of his M.S. thesis, “Advancing Specialty Crop Automation: Intelligent Robotic Systems for Navigation, …

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June 23, 2026

New COMPAG Publication Introduces XylemVision for Data-Efficient Root Anatomy Analysis

We are excited to announce that our paper, "XylemVision: A Knowledge-Distilled Deep Learning Framework for High-Throughput Quantification of Root Anatomy in Pe…

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May 22, 2026

Smart Systems Pioneers becomes the Finalist for Farm Robotics Challenge 2026

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April 18, 2026

Hamid Syed wins 13th Graduate Engineering Research Showcase (GERS) 2026

Hamid, a PhD Candidate in our department, was awarded the Biosystems Engineering Winner Award, receiving a plaque and cheque at the 13th Graduate Engineering R…

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April 14, 2026

Tanzeel Rehman receives 2026 Outstanding Biosystems Engineering Faculty Award! 🎉

Since joining Auburn in 2022, Dr. Rehman has built an innovative research program focused on robotics, sensing, and artificial intelligence for smart agricultu…

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April 2, 2026

SSE participates in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering Research Showcase

Our graduate students showed up and showed out at the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering Research Showcase, highlighting their skills in innovation and collabo…

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February 28, 2026

E-Day 2026

Last Friday, more than 3,500 future engineers arrived on campus for Auburn Engineering's annual open house. BSEN loved getting to show prospective students and…

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November 18, 2025

Empowering a Sustainable Future: AI & Robotics in Agriculture featured by the FFAR Fellows Program: Future Leaders for Food & Agriculture

Dr. Tanzeel Rehman’s lab research work “Empowering a Sustainable Future: AI & Robotics in Agriculture,” has been featured by the FFAR Fellows Program: Futu…

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February 13, 2025

Florabot gets highlighted in Auburn New Center

RoboCrop: AI innovation wins big for biosystems engineering students at international farming robotics competition Farming is work — hard work. Just not a…

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