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Session

Tech 2B i: Smart Sensing and Bioinformatics

Time:

Monday, 20/July/2026:

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Session Chair: Dr. Reisha Peters, University of Saskatchewan
Session Chair: Dr. Mohamad Mehdi Heydari, University of Saskatchewan

Location: WPT 124

Session Topics:

AI / ML in Agri-Food /bio-systems Engineering

Presentations

2:30pm - 2:42pm
ID: 121 / Tech 2B i: 1
Regular submission (ORAL)
Topics: AI / ML in Agri-Food /bio-systems Engineering
Keywords: Hydroponics, Graphene ISFET, Ion-selective sensors, Nutrient monitoring

Graphene Ion Sensors for Hydroponic Nutrient Monitoring

A.B.M. Shahed¹, Minh Tran², Valérie Orsat¹, Thomas Szkopek², Mark Lefsrud¹

1: Bioresource Engineering Department, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, 21111 Lakeshore Rd, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9; 2: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, McGill University, Downtown Campus, McConnell Engineering Building, 3480 Rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2A7

2:42pm - 2:54pm
ID: 143 / Tech 2B i: 2
Regular submission (ORAL)
Topics: Other
Keywords: Stored product insects, Microwave frequency sensor, Real-time monitoring, Automated detection

Microwave resonator sensor for bulk stored product insect detection

Kavi Mughil Murugesan¹, Garrett Kozyniak², Yongsheng Gui², Can-Ming Hu², Fuji Jian¹

1: Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba, MB, R3T 5V6 Canada; 2: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, MB, R3T 2N2 Canada

2:54pm - 3:06pm
ID: 148 / Tech 2B i: 3
Regular submission (ORAL)
Topics: Other
Keywords: HPLC–PDA, glucose monitoring, method validation, agri-processing, sugar beet mash

Development and Validation of an RI-Free HPLC–PDA Method for Glucose Monitoring in Agri-Processing Samples

Diksha Singla, Renan Danielski, Kanchan Bhatt, Chandra Singh

Advanced Post-harvest Technology Centre, Lethbridge Polytechnic, Lethbridge, AB, T1K 1L6

3:06pm - 3:18pm
ID: 151 / Tech 2B i: 4
Regular submission (ORAL)
Topics: Structures, environment, material, forest engineering
Keywords: Geophysics, Non-destructive, spatial variability, temporal variability, soil properties, state variables

The Role of Ground-penetrating Radar and Electromagnetic Induction in Advancing Precision Agriculture

Lakshman Galagedara, Sashini Pathirana, Juwonlo Dahunsi, Clinton Mensah, Golam Rabbani

Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

3:18pm - 3:30pm
ID: 158 / Tech 2B i: 5
Regular submission (ORAL)
Topics: Food-Feed-Water-Energy Nexus, Structures, environment, material, forest engineering
Keywords: Cereal flours. Puls flours, Syncrotron, SAXS, PXRD, Mid-IR

Synchrotron X-ray Characterization of Multiscale Structural Organization of Pulse and Cereal Flours

Nasrin Aliasgharlou, Ganesh Meenakshi Sundaram, Justin Joseph, Obiora Agu, Venkatesh Meda, Lifeng Zhang

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada