Abebaw Alene Yallew | Forestry | Best Researcher Award

Mr. Abebaw Alene Yallew | Forestry | Best Researcher Award

Researcher | Ethiopian Forestry Development | Ethiopia

Mr. Abebaw Alene Yallew is a dedicated forestry researcher from Ethiopia with over six years of professional experience in forestry, environmental, and climate change sectors. He currently serves as a Forest Disease and Insect Pest Control Researcher at the Ethiopian Forest Development (EFD), where he actively contributes to proposal writing, data collection and analysis, manuscript preparation, publication, and experimental material development. Previously, he worked as a Plantation Forest Researcher and Forest Resource Data Encoder at the former Ethiopian Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Commission (EEFCCC), gaining extensive expertise in field supervision, forest data registration, and stakeholder training. Mr. Yallew holds an MSc in Forest Management and Utilization from the University of Gondar (2022–2024) with a perfect GPA of 4.0, focusing on forest ecology, climate change impacts, and forest yield modeling. His thesis examined the distribution and economic importance of Uromycladium acaciae disease on Acacia mearnsii in Ethiopia’s northwestern highlands. He earned his BSc in General Forestry from Hawassa University, Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources (2014–2018), with strong academic performance. His research interests include forest pathology, disease epidemiology, sustainable forest management, remote sensing, and climate-smart forestry. Technically proficient, he is skilled in QGIS, ARC-GIS, SPSS, R, SEPAL, Collect Earth, and advanced data analysis tools, with strong communication, leadership, and teamwork abilities. His publications in Ecological Genetics and Genomics, Jurnal Biota, and Agricultural Science and Technology highlight his contributions to understanding forest disease dynamics and biodiversity conservation. Mr. Yallew has completed several professional trainings from institutions such as the Technical University of Munich, UNDP, and Udacity, enhancing his analytical and geoinformatics expertise. He is a member of the Ethiopian Forestry Society and the African Forest Forum. As Chairperson of the Central Ethiopia Forestry Development Center’s Cafeteria Management Committee, he demonstrates strong leadership and organizational management. Committed to scientific excellence and sustainable resource management, Mr. Yallew continues to advance forestry research for ecological resilience and community development.

Profiles: Scopus | ORCID

Featured Publications

1. Yallew, A. A., & Abtew, A. A. (2025, June). Economic importance of wattle rust (Uromycladium acaciae) disease on Acacia mearnsii in Fagita Lekoma, North-Western highlands of Ethiopia. Ecological Genetics and Genomics, 35, 100352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egg.2025.100352

2. Yallew, A. A., Abtew, A. A., & Kassie, W. B. (2025, January 16). Distribution of Uromycladium acaciae disease on Acacia mearnsii woodlots; response and farmers’ cultural management practices in Fagita Lekoma district, Ethiopia. Jurnal Biota, 11(1), 42–54. https://doi.org/10.19109/biota.v11i1.24739

 

Jiang Liu | Forest Management Decisions | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Jiang Liu | Forest Management Decisions | Best Researcher Award

Chinese Academy of Forestry | China

Jiang Liu is a Ph.D. candidate at the Chinese Academy of Forestry (2022–present) with a strong academic foundation, having earned a Master of Science (2019–2022) and a Bachelor of Engineering (2015–2019) from Southwest Forestry University. His research primarily focuses on forest management decisions, forestry information technology, machine learning, and image recognition, with extensive expertise in Python, MATLAB, R, C++, and Java. Professionally, he has contributed to numerous national and provincial projects, including key roles in the “Intelligent Multifunctional Management Decision-Making Technology for Larch Plantation Forests” under China’s National Key Research and Development Program, precision forest quality enhancement services, ecological product value realization, and carbon sequestration enhancement technologies, as well as participating in research on gene network mechanisms and adaptive evolution of Pinaceae species under environmental changes. Jiang has led projects on birdsong classification using ensemble learning and automatic recognition technologies, demonstrating his capability in integrating machine learning into forestry applications. His scholarly contributions include high-impact publications in journals such as Forests, Scientific Reports, Ecological Informatics, and World Forestry Research, covering topics from forest management type identification and stand age effects to blockchain applications in forestry and bird species classification. His excellence has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Outstanding Postgraduate Cadre, First-Class Doctoral Scholarship, provincial and national-level academic honors, and recognition for Party and leadership roles, reflecting both his academic rigor and community engagement. Jiang Liu’s career embodies a multidisciplinary approach that bridges forestry science, artificial intelligence, and ecological management, emphasizing practical applications that enhance forest productivity, conservation, and sustainability, positioning him as a leading young researcher in the field of forest management decisions.

Profiles: Scopus | ORCID | ResearchGate

Featured Publications

  1. Liu, J., Huang, X., Chen, S., Zheng, P., Han, D., & Liu, W. (2025). Effects of stand age gradient and thinning intervention on the structure and productivity of Larix gmelinii plantations. Forests, 16(10), 1552. https://doi.org/10.3390/f16101552

  2. Liu, J., Chen, J., Chen, S., & Wu, K. (2024). Forest management type identification based on stacking ensemble learning. Forests, 15(5), 887. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15050887

  3. Xie, S., Zhang, Y., Lv, D., Chen, X., Lu, J., & Liu, J. (2023). A new improved maximal relevance and minimal redundancy method based on feature subset. Journal of Supercomputing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-022-04763-2  Citations: 29

  4. Deng, W., Xu, Q., Liu, J., Lu, Y., Fan, M., & Liu, X. (2022). Image classification method of longhorn beetles of Yunnan based on bagging and CNN. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (PRAI 2022). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PRAI55851.2022.9904155

  5. Deng, W., Xu, Q., Liu, J., Lu, Y., & Fan, M. (2022). Image recognition method of longhorn beetles of Yunnan based on Gabor and CNN. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (PRAI 2022). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PRAI55851.2022.9904015