Scholar
Ranjan Sapkota
Google Scholar ID: MDeMB7sAAAAJ
Cornell University
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,123
H-index
18
i10-index
27
Publications
20
Co-authors
2
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Sapkota, R., & Karkee, M. (2025). Object detection with multimodal large vision-language models: An in-depth review. Information Fusion, Elsevier (2025)
- - Sapkota, R., Roumeliotis, K. I., & Karkee, M. (2025). Ai agents vs. agentic ai: A conceptual taxonomy, applications and challenges. Information Fusion, Elsevier (2025)
- - Sapkota, R., Flores-Calero, M., Qureshi, R., Badgujar, C., Nepal, U., Poulose, A., ... & Karkee, M. (2025). YOLO advances to its genesis: a decadal and comprehensive review of the You Only Look Once (YOLO) series. Artificial Intelligence Review, 58(9), 274.
- - Sapkota, R., Stenger, J., Ostlie, M. et al. (2023). Towards reducing chemical usage for weed control in agriculture using UAS imagery analysis and computer vision techniques. Sci Rep 13, 6548.
- - Sapkota, R., Ahmed, D., Churuvija, M., & Karkee, M. (2024). Immature green apple detection and sizing in commercial orchards using YOLOv8 and shape fitting techniques. IEEE Access, 12, 43436-43452.
- - Sapkota, R., Ahmed, D., & Karkee, M. (2024). Comparing YOLOv8 and Mask R-CNN for instance segmentation in complex orchard environments. Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, 13, 84-99.
- - You, A., Parayil, N., Krishna, J. G., Bhattarai, U., Sapkota, R., Ahmed, D., ... & Davidson, J. R. (2023). Semiautonomous precision pruning of upright fruiting offshoot orchard systems: An integrated approach. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
Research Experience
- - Graduate Research Assistant (PhD), Cornell University, United States (2022-2026)
- - Graduate Research Assistant (MS), North Dakota State University, United States (2020-2022)
Education
- - PhD Student, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, United States (2025-2026)
- - PhD Student, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, United States (2022-2024)
- - MS in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, North Dakota State University, United States (2020-2022)
- - B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Uttarakhand Technical University, India (2015-2019)
Background
- Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence and Multimodal LLMs, Agricultural Robotics & Automation, Machine Vision and Deep Learning (Agricultural and Biological Systems), Content Creation and Analysis, Research Design and Analysis, Project Management and Research Lead, Field Operation Analysis.
