Functional Structural Plant modeling - Parameter Identification - Optimization - Implementation

Smart  Agriculture - Agricultural Data Analysis - Intelligent Control of the Greenhouse Environment - Internet of Things

Students with background in mathematics or computer science related subject are welcome. It is preferable if you are interested in plant science or agriculture.

Journal Paper

1.         Fan, Xing-Rong; Kang, Meng-Zhen*;Heuvelink, Ep;de Reffye, Philippe;Hu, Bao-Gang. 2015. A knowledge-and-data-driven modeling approach for simulating plant growth: A case study on tomato growth. Ecological Modelling. 2015. 312:363-373

2.         Mengzhen Kang, Ep Heuvelink, Susana M. P. Carvalho, Philippe de Reffye. 2012. A virtual plant that responds to the environment like a real one: the case for chrysanthemum. New Phytologist. 195(2): 384–395

3.         Lin Wu, Francois-Xavier Le Dimet, Philippe de Reffye, Bao-Gang Hu, Paul-Henry Cournède, Mengzhen Kang. 2012. An optimal control methodology for plant growth – Case study of a water supply problem of sunflower. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. 82: 09–923.

4.         Philippe de Reffye, MengZhen Kang*, Jing Hua, Daniel Auclair. 2012. Stochastic modelling of tree annual shoot dynamics. Annals of Forest Science. 69 (2): 3-165.

5.         Paul-Henry Cournède, Veronique Letort, Amelie Mathieu, Mengzhen Kang, Sébastien Lemaire, Samis Trevezas, François Houllier, Philippe de Reffye. 2011. Some Parameter Estimation Issues in Functional-Structural Plant Modelling. Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena. 6 : 133-159  

6.         Gang Yang, Weiqun Cao, Dongxiang Liu, Mengzhen Kang, Veronique Letort, Meijun Xing, Xinyuan Huang. 2011. Growth and development simulation based on functional-structural model GreenLab for poplar (Salicaceae). African Journal of Agricultural Research. 6(13): 3071-3077

7.         Mengzhen Kang, LiLi Yang, BaoGui Zhang, Philippe de Reffye. 2011. Correlation between Dynamic Tomato Fruit Set and Source Sink Ratio: A Common Relationship for Different Plant Densities and Seasons? Annals of Botany. 107 (5): 805-815. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcq244 First published online: December 23, 2010.

8.         Feng Wang, Mengzhen Kang, Qi Lu, Hui Han, Véronique Letort, Yan Guo, Philippe de Reffye, Baoguo Li. 2010. A stochastic model of tree architecture and biomass partitioning: application to Mongolian Scots pines. Annals of Botany. 107 (5): 781-792. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcq218 First published online: November 8, 2010

9.         Rui Qi, Véronique Letort, Mengzhen Kang, Paul-Henry Cournède, Philippe de Reffye, Thierry Fourcaud. 2009. Application of the GreenLab model to simulate and optimize wood production and tree stability: a theoretical study. Silva Fennica. 43(3): 465–487.

10.      Mengzhen Kang, Jochem B. Evers, Jan Vos, Philippe de Reffye. 2008. The derivation of sink functions of wheat organs using the GreenLab model. Annals of Botany. 101(8): 1099-1108, 2008.

11.      Mengzhen Kang, Paul-Henry Cournède, Philippe de Reffye, Bao-Gang Hu. 2008. Analytic Study of a Stochastic Plant Architectural Model: Application to the GreenLab Model. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. 78: 57-75, 2008.

12.      Mengzhen Kang, Ep Heuvelink and Philippe de Reffye. 2006. Building Virtual Chrysanthemum by Calibrating GreenLab Model-a Preliminary Study. Acta Horticulturae. 718: 129-136

13.      Paul-Henry Cournède, M.Z. Kang, Amèlie Mathieu, Hongping Yan, Bao-Gang Hu, Philippe de Reffye. 2006. Structural Factorization of Plants to Compute their Functional and Structural Growth. Simulation. Transactions of the Society for Modelling and Simulation International 82 (7): 427–438

14.      Hongping Yan, Mengzhen Kang, Philippe de Reffye and Michale Dingkuhn. 2004. A Dynamic, Architectural Plant Model Simulating Resource Dependent Growth. Annals of Botany. 93: 591-602

15.      Ep Heuvelink, Paul Tijskens, Mengzhen Kang. 2004. Modelling Product Quality in Horticulture. Acta Horticulturae, 654: 19-30

16.      Mengzhen Kang, Yanjun Zeng, Jangang Liu. 2000. Fractal research on red blood cell aggregation. Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, 22: 229-236

Conference

17.      H.Y. Wang, J. Hua, M.Z. Kang, X.J. Wang, P. de Reffye, B.-G. Hu. Simulating tree plasticity with a functional-structural plant model: being realistic in behavior. The Fifth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation  (SIMUL 2013).

18.       H.Y.Wang, M.Z.Kang, J.Hua, X.J.Wang.  Modeling plant plasticity from a biophysical model: Biomechanics. 12th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry (VRCAI) 2013

19.      Haoyu Wang, Mengzhen Kang, Jing Hua. Simulating Plant Plasticity under Light Environment: a Source-Sink Approach. IEEE the Fourth International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications. 31 Oct.-04 Nov., 2012. Shanghai, China. 431-438.

20.      Yubin Lin, Mengzhen Kang, Jing Hua. Fitting a Functional Structural Plant Model based on Global Sensitivity Analysis. 2012 IEEE International Conference in Automation Sciences and Engineering (CASE), Seoul, Korea,. Auguest 20-24, 2012

21.      Jing Hua, M.Z. Kang. Functional Tree Models Reacting to the Environment. ACM Siggraph 2011.

22.      Jing Hua, M.Z. Kang. Management of Crop Pruning Assisted by Computational Experiment. 2011 International Conference on Agricultural and Biosystem Engineering (ICABE2011). HongKong, 306-308

23.      Jing Hua, M.Z. Kang,  and Philippe de Reffye. An Interactive Plant Pruning System Based on GreenLab Model: Implementation and Case Study. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE 2011). 10-12 June, ShangHai, BeiJing. 185-188

24.      M.Z. Kang, Jing Hua, BaoGang Hu, Philippe de Reffye. QingYuan—a GreenLab based plant simulator and solver. 6^th International workshop on Functioanl-Structural Plant Models (FSPM 10), Poster presentation. Sept. 12-17, 2010.  University of California, Davis, USA.

25.      M.Z. Kang, Ph. de Reffye, Ep Heuvelink. 2009. Modelling growth of inflorescence. In: PMA09 (The Third International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications). Beijing, China. Nov. 09-13, 2009.  303-310

26.      M.Z. Kang, XianWen WANG, Rui QI， Ph. de Reffye. GreenScilab-Crop, an open source software for plant simulation and parameter estimation. In: OSSC09 (2009 International Workshop on Open-source Software for Scientific Computation). Guiyang, China, Sept 18-20 2009

27.      D.X. Liu, M.Z. Kang, V. Letort, M.J. Xing, G. Yang, X.Y. Huang, W.Q. Cao. 2009. Preliminary Functional-Structural Modeling on Poplar (Salicaceae). In: PMA09 (The Third International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications). Beijing, China, Nov. 09-13, 2009.

28.      Baogui Zhang, Mengzhen Kang, V´eronique Letort, Xiujuan Wang, Philippe de Reffye. Comparison between empirical or functional sinks of organs - Application on Tomato plant In: PMA09 (The Third International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications). Beijing, China, Nov. 09-13, 2009. 191-197

29.       Xing ZHAO, Jingjing HU, Mengzhen KANG.  GPU Accelerated Plant Growth Modeling and Visualization In: PMA09 (The Third International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications). Beijing, China, Nov. 09-13, 2009. 441-444

30.      Feng Wang, Mengzhen Kang, Hui Han, Qi Lu, Veronique Letort, Yan Guo, Philippe de Refffe, Baoguo Li.  Calibration of topological development in the procedure of parametric identification: application to the stochastic GreenLab model for Pinus Sylvestris var. Mongolica. In: PMA09 (The Third International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications). Beijing, China, Nov. 09-13, 2009. 26-33

31.      LiLi Yang, Mengzhen KANG, Gaetan Louran, Philippe de Reffye, YiNing Wang, QiaoXue Dong.  Link between tomato flower abortion and trophic competition – a modeling approach In: PMA09 (The Third International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications). Beijing, China, Nov. 09-13, 2009. 198-205

32.      MengZhen Kang, Paul-Henry Cournède, Amélie Mathieu, Véronique Letort, Rui QI, ZhiGang Zhan. 2008. A Functional-Structural Plant Model--Theory and Applications in Agronomy. Proceedings of International Symposium on Crop Modeling and Decision Support (ISCMDS 2008), pp148-160.  April 19-22, 2008 Nanjing, China

33.      M.Z. Kang, P.-H. Cournède, J. P. Quadrat, P. de Reffye. 2007. Plant Distribution from the Greenlab Stochastic Organogenesis Model. In: PMA06 (The Second International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications). November 13-17, 2006, BeiJing, China. T. Fourcaud, X.P. Zhang (editors) IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California. 34-39.

34.      M.Z. Kang, R. Qi, P. de Reffye, B.G. Hu. 2006. GreenScilab--a toolbox simulating virtual plants in the Scilab environment. In: 8^th Middle Easter Simulation Multiconference (MESM06). Alexandria, Egypt, Auguest 28-30, 2006. pp 174-178.

35.      M.Z. Kang, P.-H. Cournède, J. le Roux, Ph. de Reffye, B.G. Hu. 2004. Theoretical Study and Numerical Simulation of a Stochastic Model for Plant Growth. In: 7th African Conference on Research in Computer Science, HAMMAMET(Tunisia), November 22-25

36.      M.Z. Kang, de Reffye P, Barczi JF, Hu BG, and Houllier F. 2003.  Stochastic 3d tree simulation using substructure instancing. In: Hu BG and Jaeger M, eds. PMA03 (The First International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications). Beijing: Tsinghua University Press/Springer-Verlag, 154–168. 【ISTP】

37.      B.G. Hu, Ph. de Reffye, X. Zhao, H.P. Yan, and M.Z. Kang. 2003. GreenLab: A New Methodology Towards Plant Functional-Structural Model -- Structural Part. In: PMA03 (The First International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications). Beijing, China【ISTP】

38.      B.G. Zhang, Ph. de Reffye. L. Liu, M.Z. Kang, B.G. Li. 2003. Analysis and Modeling of the Root System Architecture of Winter Wheat Seedling. In: PMA03 (The First International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications). Beijing, China【ISTP】

39.      M.Z. Kang, Ph. de Reffye, J. F. Barczi and B.G. HU. 2003. Fast Algorithm for Stochastic Tree Computation. In: 11th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision’2003 in co-operation with EUROGRAPHICS (WSCG 2003), Plzen-Bory, Czech Republic, Feb 3 - 7, 2003. Journal of WSCG, Vol. 11(1)

40.      M.Z. Kang, H.P. Yan, Ph. de Reffye, M. Jaeger, B.G. Hu and F. Houllier. 2002. A fast algorithm for calculating stem and branch radial growth of a tree with substructure approach. In: Connection between Forest Resources and Wood Quality: Modelling Approaches and Simulation Software, Fourth workshop, IUFRO Working Party S5.01-04 G. Nepveu (Ed.), Harrison Hot Springs Resort, British Columbia, Canada, Sept 9-15, 2002.

Book Chapter

41.      M.Z. Kang and P. de Reffye. 2007. A mathematical approach to the estimation of sink strength of competing organs. In Functional-structural plant modelling in crop production. J. Vos, L.F.M. Marcelis, P.H.B. de Visser, P.C. Struik and J.B. Evers(Eds), Wageningen UR Frontis Series, 22, Springer, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, February 23 2007, 65-74

42.      Meng Zhen Kang, Thomas Corpetti, Jing Hua1, and Philippe de Reffye. Reconstructing LAI Series by Filtering Technique and a Dynamic Plant Model. Remote Sensing of Biomass – Principles and Applications. InTech Press.  2012. 217-228.

（1）Parameter identification of plant growth models with stochastic development   2016年植物功能结构生长建模、应用和可视化国际会议(International Conference on modeling, application and visualization of plant functional structural growth in 2016)   2016-11-07
（2）Computational plant: a functional-structural plant model GreenLab   中国科学院（CAS）与澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织（CSIRO）联合会议 (Joint conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Commonwealth of Australia Institute for scientific and Industrial Research (CSIRO))  2014-05-31
（3）Theory and Applications of a Functional-Structural Plant Model   2013年第六届中德前沿科学研讨会(2013 The sixth Sino German Symposium on advanced science)   2013-05-22

（4） Simulating plant plasticity under light environment: a source-sink approach   第四次植物生长建模、应用和可视化国际会议(Fourth International Conference on plant growth modeling, application and visualization)   2012-10-31
（5）Fitting a Functional Structural Plant Model based on Global Sensitivity Analysis   Yubin LIN, Mengzhen KANG *, Jing HUA   2012-08-20
（6）Modeling annual tree development and growth   第九次数值分析和应用数学国际大会(Ninth International Conference on numerical analysis and Applied Mathematics)   Jing HUA, MengZhen KANG and Philippe de REFFYE   2011-09-19
（7）Functional Tree Models Reacting to the Environment   2011国际图形学年会(International graphic school year 2011)   Jing HUA, MengZhen KANG   2011-08-07
（8）Incoorperating genetic knowledge into plant simulation model   ASA-CSSA-SSSA 2010年会   M.Z. Kang, Philippe de Reffye   2010-10-30
（9）Stochastic 3D Tree Simulation using Substructure Instancing   第一次植物生长建模、应用和可视化国际会议(First International Conference on modeling, application and visualization of plant growth)    2010-10-13
（10）Urban greening and plant modeling   中国欧洲博览会(China Europe Expo)   康孟珍M.Z. Kang   2009-12-08
（11）Modelling growth of inflorescence   第三次植物生长建模、应用和可视化国际会议(Third International Conference on plant growth modeling, application and visualization)   M.Z. Kang, Ph. de Reffye, Ep Heuvelink   2009-11-09
（12）Fitting weight of individual organs in spring wheat using the GreenLab model   第二次植物生长建模、应用和可视化国际会议(Second International Conference on plant growth modeling, application and visualization)    MengZhen Kang， Jochem B. Evers, Jan Vos, Philippe de Reffye   2006-11-13

2008-05~ Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor

2014-07~, Qingdao Academy of Intelligent Industries. Executive Vice President

2004-09~2006-03, INRIA (France), Wageningen University (the Netherlands), Post-Doctoral

(1) Qingdao Youth Science and technology award, city level, 2016

(2) the petroleum and chemical industry automation industry science and technology award, first prize, ministerial level, 2012

(1) an automatic control system for irrigation water quantity, the invention, 2015, second author, patent number: ZL201410067377.9

(2) pruning robot system, the invention, 2016, second authors, patent No.: CN201480000262.6

(3) a 3D virtual plant construction and storage method based on dynamic sub structure. The invention, 2012, first, patent No.: ZL201010603180.4