Sreekala G Bajwa

Sreekala Bajwa is the vice president for agriculture, dean of the College of Agriculture and director of the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station at Montana State University. Bajwa is a fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Early life and education Bajwa was born in Umayanalloor, a rural town in Kerala, the southwestern-most state in India, as the third among four daughters on a small family farm. Bajwa earned a bachelor's degree from Kerala Agricultural University in Tavanur, India, a master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, and doctoral degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, in agricultural engineering.

Career After working as a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Agricultural Engineering at the University of Illinois During her time there, NDSU became highly ranked worldwide for its work in precision agriculture. At Montana State University Bajwa works to support the institution's land-grant mission of serving the agricultural community of Montana. . In 2025, she stepped into the role of chairing the Policy Board of Directors and APLU's Board on Agricultural Assembly.

Bajwa became a fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers in 2017. She served as a member of its Global Engagement Executive Committee, and on its board of trustees.

Awards and honors Bajwa is the recipient of the 2022 Cyrus Hall McCormick-Jerome Increase Case Gold Medal for exceptional and meritorious engineering achievements in agriculture from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) the 2019 James R. and Karen A. Gilley Award for Academic Leadership from ASABE and the 2007 AMA–SHIN-NORINSHA–AAAE Young Researcher Award from the Asian Association of Agricultural Engineers.