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Binaya BaralPh.D. Student / Graduate Research Assistant, Agricultural and Biological EngineeringResearch focus: Integrated crop–livestock systems with emphasis on soil health, nutrient leaching, and water quality assessment using field measurements and modelling approaches (DSSAT and DNDC), and emerging AI/ML approaches. Education:
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Originally from Nepal, Binaya grew up in a hilly agricultural region, which shaped his interest in agriculture. He earned his bachelor’s degree in agriculture from the Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal, in 2021. He worked as an agricultural officer in Nepal for one and a half years before joining Kentucky State University as a master’s student in Environmental Studies in Spring 2024. His master’s research evaluated groundwater water quality in a long-term integrated organic crop–livestock rotation system and assessed soil health in a biochar-amended continuous soybean cropping system.
He joined the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Florida as a Ph.D. student in Spring 2026 under the supervision of Dr. Vivek Sharma in the Precision Water Management Lab. His doctoral research evaluates the long-term effects of cover crops and resilient cropping systems, such as sod-based rotations, on nutrient leaching and water quality using field data, process-based modelling, and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning approaches.
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