Poster and Oral Honors and Awards

*Dhakal, S., Gutierrez-Manriquez, C., Rueda, N. E., Fresnedo-Ramirez, J., Khanal, S. 2026. Remote Sensing Based Phenotyping of Rubber Dandelion: Linking Canopy Traits to Root Biomass and Natural Rubber Yield. Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum, March 6, Columbus, OH. [Poster] (Honorable Mention in 2026 Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum (Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Category)

*Dhakal, S., Shah, A., and Khanal, S. Monitoring historical waste coal piles using image classification and change detection algorithms on satellite images. ASABE Annual International Meeting, July 12-16, Virtual. 2025. [Paper] (First place, Boyd-Scott research competition, MS Category)
*Ansari, A., Timilsina, A., Shah, A., Manandhar, A., and Khanal, S. Assessing Switchgrass Efficacy in Reclaiming Abandoned Mine Lands using SWAT Model. CFAES Annual Research Conference, OSU, April 10, 2025. [Poster] (Third place, Research Scientist Category)
*Dhakal, S., Olhson, E., Wilson, J., and Khanal, S. Detection of High Plains Wheat Mosaic Virus (HPWMoV) in sweet corn using multispectral imagery and deep learning. The Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum, February 28, 2025. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH [Poster] (Second place, Graduate Research; Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Session)

*Katari, S., Waltz, L., Lindsey, L, & Khanal, S. Determining Corn Growth Stages by Extracting Morphological Features from small Unmanned Aerial System based Images. ASABE Annual International Meeting. July 28-31, 2024, Anaheim, CA. [Poster] (ASABE Presentation Excellence Award)
*Katari, S. Applicability of Vision Transformer and LSTM models in assessing soybean growth stages. ASABE Annual International Meeting, July 28-31, Anaheim, California. 2024. [Oral] (Presentation Excellence Award, Student category)
*Dhakal, S, Khanal, S., Manandhar, A., Shah, A. Estimating the availability of coal refuse in abandoned mine lands using remote sensing. ASABE Annual International Meeting, July 28-31, Anaheim, California. 2024. [Poster] (Presentation Excellence Award, Student category)
*Dhakal, S., Khanal, S., Manandhar, A., and Shah, A. Mapping waste coal piles using Remote Sensing – A regional scale study. CFAES Annual Research Conference, April 9, Columbus, OH. [Poster] (Third place, MS Category)

*KC, K., and Khanal, S. Quantifying yield and water quality benefits of cover cropping at a landscape scale using satellite imagery. CFAES Annual Research Conference, OSU, April 5-7, Virtual. 2021. [Poster] (Third place, MS category)
*Bhattarai, A., and Khanal, S. Modeling the effects of management practices and environmental variables on ecosystem services from corn-dominated agricultural systems. NABEC, July 26-28, Virtual. 2021. [Poster] (Third place in poster competition)

*KC, K. and Khanal, S. Cover crop mapping in the Maumee River watershed. CFAES Annual Research Conference, OSU, April 24, Virtual. 2020. [Poster] (Second place, Master’s Category)