Position Summary The Department of Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering at Michigan State University is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate whose work focuses on harvest automation of specialty crops. The selected candidate will work with Dr. Yuzhen Lu to develop and test automated harvesting mechanisms integrated with machine vision and artificial intelligence (AI) for specialty crops and to generate high-quality peer-reviewed publications. The successful candidate will meet with Dr. Lu and collaborators regularly to review progress and discuss best practices in design, prototyping, algorithm development and testing, manuscript preparation, mentoring, and grant writing. The selected may engage in other activities such as grant proposal development and class teaching as