Lav R. Khot, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Research Interest
Dr. Khot works in the Agricultural Automation Engineering research emphasis area of the Department of Biological Systems Engineering. His research and extension program focuses on “Sensing and automation technologies for site specific and precision management of production agriculture”. Special emphasis is towards integration of
- Crop Sensing (ground and aerial systems)
- Internet-of-Things enabled Cyber Physical Systems
- Edge and Cloud Compute driven Decision Support Systems
- Smartphone Apps & Information Delivery Technologies
- Precision Chemical Application Technologies
- Agricultural Machinery, Processes & Data-based Modeling
See more at my Research Site.
My Research In the News
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WSU’s Lav Khot, colleagues receive multi-state award for ag drone research
Lav Khot, associate professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, was honored by the for ongoing efforts to enhance the role of drones in agriculture.Khot and colleagues at more than 20 research institutions received the 2022 National Excellence in Multistate Research Award from the Experiment Station Section (ESS) unit of the commission’s Board on Agriculture Assembly for their research and extension work in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) applications for U.S. agriculture and natural resources…
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- Mark Schrader places in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition at ASABE 2022
- WSU to lead national AI research institute for agriculture
- Lav Khot named to 40 Under 40 Class of 2021
- Lav Khot to lead WSU’s AgWeatherNet
- Abhilash Chandel wins CAHNRS Graduate Student Leadership Award
- IEEE MetroAgriFor 2020 – Conference Award for Best Paper Presented by a Young Researcher
- Spray, without the sprayer – Taking air out of the equation
- Adding Washington State to the California-Dutch AgFoodTech
- WSU’s Ag Tech Day – 1:30-6:00 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 22, in Prosser, Washington.
- Spray Researchers Aim to Catch Their Drift
- BSE Graduate Students win Best Graduate Poster Award at the 2019 BioAg Symposium
- Researcher finds alternatives to pesticides
- Lav Khot Named New Innovator in Food and Agriculture
- WSU, Australian scientists partner to form Joint Center for Ag Robotics
- BSE Faculty Receive USDA-NIFA Funding to Study Water Use
- BSE Faculty Receive 2018 WSDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Awards
- BSE Faculty and Students Attend ASABE 2018 – Student Wins First Place Award
- Using UAS technology in irrigated agriculture
- Collaboration with Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University in China
- WSU secures more than $1.5 million for specialty crop research
- Dr. Lav Khot
- WSU Faculty, Dr. Lav Khot, Presents at 2017 APS Annual Meeting in San Antonio
- Washington State Professor Finds Sky-high Opportunities for Drones in Agriculture
- Agtech: Higher yields, lower costs, better environmental protection
- Drone captures vineyard irrigation data
- WSU tests unmanned helicopter to dry cherries
- Video: Unmanned helicopter tested for rainwater removal
- Sensor Data Improves Cherry Production
- Things that Fly in the Sky
Email Dr. Khot
509-786-9302
509-335-5638
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Ag Tech 109
WSU Prosser – IAREC
24106 N. Bunn Road
Prosser, WA 99350-8694
L.J. Smith Hall 206
Biological Systems Engineering
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-6120
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