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Meiqing Wang

Postdoctoral researcher

Office: Agricultural Building, University College Dublin, Stillorgan Rd, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

Email: meiqing.wang@ucd.ie

Hi there! Welcome to my page. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. Dimitrios Argyropoulos at the School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. Prior to joining UCD, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. My research focuses on interdisciplinary work in precision livestock farming and smart farming.

I have a foundation in mathematics and engineering, having obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Information and Computing Science from Minzu University and a Master’s degree in Control Science and Engineering from Beihang University, both in China. My interest in nature and the environment developed early in my life, motivating me to apply my knowledge and skills to contribute to sustainability. Under the supervision of Prof. Tomas Norton and co-supervision of Prof. Jean-Loup Rault (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria), I completed my Ph.D. in Bioscience Engineering at KU Leuven, Belgium. I am passionate about applying computer vision and artificial intelligence to enhance the sustainability of agriculture while improving animal health and welfare management.

I have always been fascinated by the dynamics of the natural world — from animals and plants to soil, oceans, and weather. I am happy to collaborate on projects related to these topics, especially those focused on sustainability.

News

Jul 08, 2025 One paper was accepted by Animal. Check the paper in this link.
Jun 29, 2025 One paper was accepted by Smart Agricultural Technology. Check the paper in this link.
Feb 17, 2025 I joined University College Dublin as a postdoc researcher, working with Prof. Dimitrios Argyropoulos at School of Agriculture and Bisosytem Engineering.
Sep 23, 2024 One paper was accepted by Frontiers in Plant Science. Thanks to my collaborators! Check the paper in this link.
Sep 05, 2024 I will be giving 2 presentations at ECPLF 2024.
Jul 05, 2024 One paper was accepted by JDS. Thanks to my colleagues and collaborators! Check the paper in this link.
Jun 11, 2024 Our group is attending ADSA 2024. I’ll be presenting a poster and a spotlight presentation.
Jun 03, 2024 The animal experiment I’m leading, investigating the physiological changes of heat stress in dairy cows, started today. :muscle:
Mar 15, 2024 The first Master’s student I co-supervised successfully defended his thesis! :clap::clap::clap:

Selected publications

  1. AgTech
    Instance segmentation of oyster mushroom datasets: A novel data sampling methodology for training and evaluation of deep learning models
    Christos Charisis , Meiqing Wang , Dimitrios Argyropoulos*
    Smart Agricultural Technology, 2025
  2. JDS
    Learning end-to-end respiratory rate prediction of dairy cows from RGB videos
    Meiqing Wang , Sumin Li , Rong Peng , Susanna E. Räisänen , Aira Maye Serviento , Xiaoge Sun , Kai Wang , Fisher Yu , Mutian Niu*
    Journal of Dairy Science, 2024
  3. Front. Plant Sci.
    Early detection and lesion visualization of pear leaf anthracnose based onx multi-source feature fusion of hyperspectral imaging
    Yingying Zhang , Yannan Qi , Meiqing Wang , Tao Xu , Kai Huang , Yuanhao Sun , Quanchun Yuan , Xiaohui Lei , Xue Li , Xiaolan Lv*
    Frontiers in Plant Science, 2024
  4. COMPAG
    A computer vision-based approach for respiration rate monitoring of group housed pigs
    Meiqing Wang , Xue Li , Mona L.V. Larsen , Dong Liu , Jean-Loup Rault , Tomas Norton*
    Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2023
  5. Biosyst. Eng.
    Automatic detection of locomotor play in young pigs: A proof of concept
    Mona L.V. Larsen , Meiqing Wang , Sam Willems , Dong Liu , Tomas Norton*
    Biosystems Engineering, 2023
  6. Biosyst. Eng.
    Towards re-identification for long-term tracking of group housed pigs
    Meiqing Wang , Mona L.V. Larsen , Dong Liu , Jeanet FM Winters , Jean-Loup Rault , Tomas Norton*
    Biosystems Engineering, 2022
  7. COMPAG
    A PCA-based frame selection method for applying CNN and LSTM to classify postural behaviour in sows
    Meiqing Wang , Mona Larsen , Florian Bayer , Kristina Maschat , Johannes Baumgartner , Jean-Loup Rault , Tomas Norton*
    Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2021
  8. Animals
    Contactless video-based heart rate monitoring of a resting and an anesthetized pig
    Meiqing Wang , Ali Youssef , Mona Larsen , Jean-Loup Rault , Daniel Berckmans , Jeremy N Marchant-Forde , Joerg Hartung , André Bleich , Mingzhou Lu , Tomas Norton*
    Animals, 2021
  9. Sustainability
    Information technologies for welfare monitoring in pigs and their relation to Welfare Quality\textregistered
    Mona LV Larsen , Meiqing Wang , Tomas Norton*
    Sustainability, 2021