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About Frank

Dr. Frank C. Owens, Mississippi State University

Since 2001, Frank Owens has been involved in the global marketing and sourcing of wood products. Fluent in Japanese, he has lived abroad for eight years in East Asia and the Middle East. He holds a bachelor's degree in international relations from the University of Minnesota, a master's degree in East Asian languages from UCLA, and a doctoral degree in forest resources from Mississippi State University, where he currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Sustainable Bioproducts. He teaches courses in wood anatomy, forest products marketing and lumber manufacturing and conducts research on lumber properties and computer vision applications for wood identification. He is Vice President of the Forest Products Society and serves on the Council of the International Association of Wood Anatomists (IAWA) and the Board of Directors of the National Association of Floor Covering Technicians (NAFCT).

Research

Tinius Olsen Testing Machine
Lumber Properties

How do statistical distributions of mechanical properties of mill-run lumber populations affect graded lumber populations?

XyloTron Computer Vision Wood ID

How can we teach computers to more accurately identify wood species using artificial intelligence? 

Research

Laboratory

Microscopes

Microscopes

XyloTron
Wood ID Laboratory

Wood Identification Laboratory

Woodshop

Woodshop

Laboratory
Students

Graduate Students

Kyatt Spessert
Kyatt Spessert

Masters Student - Tennessee

Asi Ebeheakey
Asi Ebeheakey

Ph.D. Student - Ghana

Alumni

Dr. Guangmei Anderson

Ph.D. 2021

Weyerhaeuser

Dr. Adam Wade

Ph.D. 2022

Lamar School

Dr. Adriana Costa

Assistant Professor 2022

Mississippi State University

Contact

Contact

Email & Phone:

frank.owens@msstate.edu

Tel: +1-662-325-6698

Address:

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Dept. of Sustainable Bioproducts

201 Locksley Way

Starkville, MS 39759

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