Yohtaro Kobayashi
- Davenport Leadership Scholar
- Remote Sensing IGEP Fellow
- George Washington Carver Scholar
- New Horizons Graduate Scholar

Ph.D., Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2025 Expected
M.S., Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, 2020
B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, 2018
August 2021—present, Graduate Research Assistant, Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
September 2020—August 2021, Research Associate, Texas A&M University – Agrilife Extension in El Paso
July 2019—September 2020, Student Technician, Texas A&M University – Agrilife Extension in El Paso
September 2017—May 2018, Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Texas at El Paso
2022, Research Grant, The American Chestnut Foundation
August 2021-Present, Remote Sensing IGEP Fellow at Virginia Tech
August 2021-Present, George Washington Carver Scholar at Virginia Tech
August 2021-Present, New Horizons Graduate Scholar at Virginia Tech
January 2020—May 2020, Teaching Assistant for CE Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering
August 2019—December 2019, Teaching Assistant for CE Engineering Measurements
January 2019—May 2019, Teaching Assistant for CE Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering
August 2018—December 2018, Teaching Assistant for CE Engineering Measurements
Oral Presentations
- Kobayashi, Y., Kumar, S., (2018) Model to Improve Decision Making for Farms Dealing with Salinity in the South-West Region, International Environmental Modelling & Software Society
- Kobayashi, Y., Kumar, S., (2018) A Bayesian Network Based Model for Decision Making on a Farm Scale Impacted by Salinity, Environmental & Water Resources Institute
Poster Presentations
- Kobayashi, Y., Kumar, S., (2019) Improving the Output of a Farm Field Model Through Data Assimilation, Sustainable Water Resources Symposium
- Kobayashi, Y., Kumar, S., (2018) Using a Bayesian Network Based Model to Improve Decision Making for Farms Dealing with Salinity, Sustainable Water Resources Symposium
- Kobayashi, Y., Lehmann, L., Lakoba, V., Hession, C.W. (2022) Applying Remote Sensing Techniques for Phenotyping Chestnut Trees, The American Chestnut Foundation Symposium