Jianmin Gao is a researcher at the College of Agricultural Engineering, Jiangsu University. He graduated from Beijing Agricultural Engineering University with a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Machinery in 1993. He received a master's degree in agricultural machinery from the joint training program of China Agricultural Machinery Research Institute and Jilin University of Technology in 1996. He received a doctorate in mechanical design from Jiangsu University of Science and Technology in 2001. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in agricultural engineering at South China Agricultural University from 2002 to 2004. He joined the Agricultural Engineering Research Institute of Jiangsu University as an associate researcher in 2004 and became a researcher in 2010. He was a visiting scientist at the US Department of Agriculture Research Institute from 2010 to 2011. He is a member of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. He is a reviewer for Measurements, Science in China, and Transactions of the ASABE and a correspondence reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His research areas include modern agricultural machinery design methods and theories, tillage machinery design and theories, and ultrasonic spray technology and theories. He has presided over/participated in numerous scientific research projects and won second prize for scientific and technological progress from the State Machinery Industry Bureau.