Dr. Redmond R. Shamshiri is a scientist at the Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie (Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy) working toward digitization of agriculture for food security. He holds a Ph.D. in agricultural automation with a focus on control systems and dynamics. His research fields include distributed collision avoidance for autonomous navigation of agricultural mobile robots, LPWAN sensors for digital farming applications, and optimization of controlled environment crop production systems. He is currently working on the adaptation of the 5G technology for reducing yield losses from potato fields.