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Baijuan Wang is a researcher specializing in computer vision, deep learning, and agricultural robotics, with a particular focus on the automation of tea leaf detection, grading, and harvesting. Her work addresses one of precision agriculture's most technically demanding challenges: enabling robots to accurately identify and harvest tea leaves in complex, real-world field conditions. Wang's most significant contributions center on adapting and improving state-of-the-art object detection architectures — including YOLOv5, YOLOv7, and YOLOv8 — for tea-specific applications. Her 2023 paper on ShuffleNetv2-YOLOv5-Lite-E for edge device deployment has garnered 41 citations, demonstrating strong community uptake for lightweight, efficient models suited to resource-constrained robotics platforms. Subsequent work on improved YOLOv8 frameworks for tea grading and fresh leaf classification further highlights her systematic approach to enhancing feature extraction, detection speed, and accuracy under challenging conditions such as occlusion and dense leaf distributions. Beyond software, Wang has extended her research to hardware integration, contributing to the mechanical design of a 6-DOF Stewart parallel lifting platform intended to expand the operational range of tea-picking robotic arms. Collectively, her work bridges deep learning innovation with practical agricultural engineering, making her a notable contributor to intelligent harvesting systems and smart agriculture automation.