ILASS BOARD BIOGRAPHIES: KEN GILES

Ken Giles joined ILASS in 1994 to learn more about atomization applications outside of his direct interests. He joined the board of directors in 2001. Ken feels ILASS is important because of the opportunity it offers to network with other researchers and designers focused on atomization. Also, the technical committees are a great way to meet people working on similar problems or using similar instrumentation/techniques.

Ken is a Professor of Biological & Agricultural Engineering at UC Davis and focuses his research on fluids and materials handling, particularly spray applications such as agricultural pest control and fertilizing operations where liquids and solids are metered onto target surfaces, industrial coating and drying operations, consumer product spraying and control of insect vectors and human disease. Examples of successful projects that have resulted in commercial products include sensor-based orchard sprayer control systems, pulse-width modulated spray actuators for droplet size and flow rate control, pulsed metering of anhydrous ammonia, GPS-based spray drift mitigation and detection of spray nozzle malfunctions through networked and non-wetted sensors.

D. Ken Giles
Member-at-Large
dkgiles@ucdavis.edu

BOARD BIOGRAHIES