Dr. Sreekala Bajwa

Dr. Sreekala Bajwa serves as the vice president for agriculture, dean of the College of Agriculture and director of Montana Agricultural Experiment Station at Montana State University. Her leadership is focused on aligning the college with the land-grant mission of serving the needs of the constituents in Montana and beyond through transformational education and outreach, and impactful research. She is a strong advocate of access to education and research outcomes to people across Montana and beyond. Bajwa is an agricultural engineer with research expertise in precision agriculture and agricultural byproduct utilization. Prior to joining MSU, Bajwa served as the chair of the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at North Dakota

State University, and as a faculty member at the University of Arkansas. Bajwa earned a bachelor’s degree from Kerala Agricultural University in India, master’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, and doctoral degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in agricultural engineering. She is the recipient of the 2022 Cyrus Hall McCormick-Jerome Increase Case Gold Medal for exceptional and meritorious engineering achievements in agriculture, the 2019 James R. and Karen A. Gilley Award for Academic Leadership, and the 2007 AMA–SHIN-NORINSHA–AAAE Young Researcher Award. She is a fellow of the American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers.