Tofael Ahamed is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, which is one of the leading universities in Japan relocated at the Tsukuba Science City in 1973 from Tokyo University of Education. Dr. Ahamed has also teaching and research experiences as Lecturer, Assistant, and Associate Professor in the Department of Farm Power and Machinery, Bangladesh Agricultural University, established with academic support from the Texas A&M University during 1961. He received PhD from the University of Tsukuba and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Tofael performs research in the field of precision agriculture technology, agricultural robotics and decision support systems. He focuses on enabling smart application using Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in agriculture, where crop, orchard and livestock production varies spatially and temporally within the field boundaries depending on the soil, nutrient, and environmental conditions. Tofael is also receiving research supports from Japan Science and Technology (JST), Japanese Society of Promotion Science (JSPS), Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Japan (MAFF), Amazon Research Initiatives, USA and Industries as a principal researcher and co-researcher. Tofael is a member of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery and Food Engineers (JSAM), Japanese Society of Agricultural Information (JSAI) and Japan Section of Regional Science Association (JSRSAI). He is also serving as one of the Associate Editors for Computer and Electronics in Agriculture (Elsevier), Agricultural Information Research (JSAI), Editorial Member for Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science (Springer-Nature). He is also serving as a Guest Editor of Special Issues for Remote Sensing and Regional Application of Remote Sensing. Tofael has published in journals such as ‘Computers and Electronics in Agriculture’, ‘Biosystems Engineering’, ‘Transactions of ASABE’, Smart Agriculture Technology, Sensors, Remote Sensing and Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery and Food Engineering (JSAM). By far, he has published more than 120 journal articles and Lead Author of 4 books and Editor of 5 books.
Tofael is actively collaborating with International Research Institutes and Universities from Japan and abroad. He has supervised more than 25 PhD students, 40 Masters and 15 undergrad students and received more than 10 funded projects in the past 10 years. Currently he is supervising 10 PhD students, 9 master’s students, 4 research students at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Tofael also recognized as one of the best faculty members for 2016 and 2022 at the University of Tsukuba, Japan for his outstanding contributions to research, education, university management and social contributions.