Anuj Chiluwal, Ph.D

Principal Investigator

Dr. Chiluwal is the Principal Investigator of the Agronomy Lab at Kentucky State University. He is an Assistant Professor of Agronomy at Kentucky State University. He received Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture from Tribhuvan University, Nepal; Masters of Science degree in Biotechnology from Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA; and a Ph.D. in Agronomy from Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. He worked at the University of Kentucky and University of Florida as a Post Doctoral Scholar and at Florida Sugarcane League as an Agronomist before joining Kentucky State University. He has extensive experience conducting agronomic, crop physiology and high throughput aerial phenotyping research in multiple crops across a wide range of environments.  

The overall goal of his research program is to discover improved crop cultivation and soil management practices and identify site-specific best cropping system and crop management practices to improve crop productivity, profitability and sustainability. He also uses aerial phenotyping in his research program to monitor crop growth, measure crop growth and physiological parameters and to detect biotic and abiotic stresses, irrigation, nutrient and other input limitations in the field. He is also interested in working towards improving the quality of grains and end use products, identifying stress resilient cultivars and understanding source, sink and photoassimilates transport dynamics under different environmental conditions and biotic and abiotic stresses.