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!

• Two new EU-funded grants started this January!
  - PHENET 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!
  

• 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, Machine Learning for agricultural modelling, AgMIP 9th Global Workshop - Modelling the Future of Food, Jun 26-30, 2023, New York, USA.

• Area chair, NeurIPS 2023 Datasets and Benchmarks track, 37th Conf. on Neural Information Processing Systems, Dec 10-16, 2023, New Orleans, USA.

Recent journal articles

• Crop modeling frameworks interoperability through bidirectional source code transformation, published in Environmental Modelling & Software

• A weakly supervised framework for high-resolution crop yield forecasts, published in Environmental Research Letters

• How do countries frame climate change? A global comparison of adaptation and mitigation in UNFCCC National Communications, published in Regional Environmental Change

• Machine learning-based detection of irrigation in Vojvodina (Serbia) using Sentinel-2 data, published in GIScience and Remote Sensing

• Exploding the myths: An introduction to artificial neural networks for prediction and forecasting, published in Environmental Modelling & Software

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!