Muhammad Cheema is an assistant professor at UAF, where he also served as program chair for precision agriculture at the Center for Advance Studies in Food & Agriculture. He led pilot activities (field evaluation and refinement of drills for direct seeding) for ADB’s TA 8578-PAK: Punjab Basmati Rice Value Chain project. He holds a PhD in Hydrology from the Technical University Delft, the Netherlands, and master and bachelor’s degrees in agricultural engineering with honors from UAF.