Yinggang Ou is a Professor of Agricultural Machinery in the College of Engineering at South China Agricultural University (SCAU). The major research he has worked on was harvester for sugarcane production. He is currently working on a CA (Conservation Agriculture) project which is a part of the World Bank program-Guangdong Agricultural Pollution Control Program. He received his Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural Engineering in 1991 from Silsoe College, Cranfield University in UK.