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Rakiba Rayhana (Student Member, IEEE; email: rakiba.
rayhana@ubc.ca) is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in
electrical engineering with The University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, Canada. She received the B.Sc. degree in
electrical and electronic engineering from BRAC University,
Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2015 and the M.Sc. degree in electronic
and electrical engineering from the University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow, U.K. in 2017. Ms. Rayhana is also a Student Member of The International Society for Optics and Photonics
Organization.

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Gaozhi (George) Xiao is an IEEE Fellow and a Principal Research Officer of the National Research Council Canada. He
is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of RFID
and Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. Dr. Xiao received his Ph.D. from
Loughborough University, UK in 1995. He has managed large
research and development projects in industries, academics, and government labs, covering areas including RFID/
NFC, flexible/printable/wearable electronics, fiber optic sensor systems, photonic sensing and measurement, structural
health monitoring, indoor air quality monitoring, structural
materials, and smart materials. Dr. Xiao has brought several
technologies from concepts to products.

accumulation is a useful indicator of the postharvest freshness
and quality of spinach and kale, " in Proc. VI Int. Conf. Postharvest
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fulfillment of the requirements for M.Sc. degree in engineering
and management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019.
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Zheng Liu joined the University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus) at Kelowna, BC, Canada in August 2015. His
research interests include condition-based maintenance, condition assessment, non-destructive inspection & evaluation,
Prognostic Health Management (PHM), data/information fusion, computer/machine vision, pattern recognition, machine
learning, and sensor/sensor network. He received his doctorate degree in engineering from Kyoto University, Japan in 2000
and earned a second Ph.D. degree from the University of Ottawa, Canada in 2007. Dr. Liu is a Senior Member of IEEE and
a member of SPIE.

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