Wadud Ahmed Successfully Defends His PhD

Wadud Ahmed Successfully Defends His PhD

By Victoria Birk Hill July 2, 2025

Featured left to right are:
Jason Lee Emmert (Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, UIUC), Dr. Wadud Ahmed, Mohammed Kamruzzaman (Advisor & Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UIUC), Kent D. Rausch (Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UIUC), and Amir Malvandi (Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UIUC).

We are pleased to share that on April 10, 2025 CARD researcher and UIUC student, Wadud Ahmed, successfully defended his PhD entitled, “Application of Spectral Techniques and Machine Learning for Fertility, Mortality, Sex, and Structural Evaluation of Eggs”. His research focused on applied near-infrared spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging for the non-destructive evaluation of eggs, aiming to advance the egg industry and address global animal welfare concerns by reducing the selective culling of male chicks. Wadud worked on a USDA project until February 2025 and was involved in the CARD collaborative project between UIUC and WPI from March to May 2025.

Currently, Dr. Ahmed is working as a full-time faculty member at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (Bangladesh).

His advisor was Professor Mohammed Kamruzzaman.

Congratulations, Dr. Ahmed !