Welcome!

I am a Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Wageningen University and Research, in the Netherlands. On my website you may find about my research team, grants, teaching and publications. Check also the new community-driven, open-access journal Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling!

News!

• On March 23, 2023 I gave my Inaugural Lecture as professor of AI at WUR!

• New four-year PhD scholarship on Language AI for climate change adaptation! Together with Robbert Biesbroek we look for a motivated PhD student to investigate if, when, and how governments across the globe track their progress on climate change adaptation action (or not) with the power of AI. Applications through 29 March 2023 here.

• Our paper Learning Long-Term Crop Management Strategies with CyclesGym was accepted at NeurIPS 2022 Datasets and Benchmarks Track! We hope it encourages the use of reinforcement learning for data-driven sustainable agriculture. Joint work with ETH and AgriScope - M. Turchetta, L. Corinzia, S. Sussex, A. Burton, J. Herrera, J. Buhmann, and A. Krause.

• Two new EU-funded grants just started this September - both related to the European Green Deal!
  - Smart Droplets will exploit artificial intelligence for impactful spraying commands of smart robots, and reduce the use of chemicals on the field!
  - GREAT aims to establish the European Green Deal Data Space, its community of practice, and develop a roadmap for its implementation for 2024-2027!
  

Agenda

I am involved in (the organization of) the following events:

• Session organizer on machine learning for agricultural modelling, AgMIP 9th Global Workshop - Modelling the Future of Food, Jun 26-30, 2023, New York, USA.

Recent journal articles

• Rapid turnover of sensor data to genetic evaluation for dairy cows in the cloud, published in Journal of Diary Science

• Mixing process-based and data-driven approaches in yield prediction, published in European Journal of Agronomy

• Combining telecom data with heterogeneous data sources for traffic and emission assessments - an agent-based approach, published in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

• Simulation-assisted machine learning for operational digital twins, published in Environmental Modelling & Software

• Machine learning for regional crop yield forecasting in Europe, published in Field Crops Research

Full list of publications.

Academic Service

Academic Journal Editorial Boards

• Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, (Founding Managing Editor).

• Environmental Modelling and Software, (Board member, previously Editor).

Project Scientific Advisory Boards

• SUSCAP (Developing resource use efficiency for crops under future climate extremes and air quality), EU H2020 ERA-Net Cofund Action.

• AnaEE (Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems), European Strategic Forum on Research Infrastructures.

• IS-GEO Intelligent Systems for Geo-Sciences, EarthCube Research Coordination Network (NSF, USA).

• New Zealand Bioeconomy in the Digital Age (Harnessing the power of digital technologies to enable the transformation of New Zealand Food Systems), AgResearch, New Zealand.

• BEACON (Boosting Agricultural Insurance based on Earth Observation data), H2020 Research and Innovation Action.

My website

This is my web office! I have developed this habit to totally restructure my website every couple of years, as an excuse to sharpen my web development skills. Nowadays, I am porting my website from Wordpress to Jekyll, while changing hosts, so please be patient!