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!

• 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:

• Primary Representative, Open Modeling Foundation - Organizational Meeting, Dec. 6-7, 2021, Washington, DC, USA.

• Panelist, ACOS 2021 (Applied Computational Sciences conference 2021), Nov. 3, 2021, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

• Panelist, (Data collection and Artificial Intelligence Workshop), FIRA 2021 (World Agricultural Robotics Forum), Dec. 7, 2021, Montpelier, France, and Online.

• Scientific Committee Member, iEMSs 2022 (11th International Environmental Modelling and Software Society Conference, Modelling for Environmental Sustainability), July 3-8, 2022, Brussels, Belgium.

• Programme Committee Member, Enviroinfo 2021 (35th International Environmental Informatics Conference), Sept. 27-29, 2021, Berlin, Germany.

• Session organizer, ML and DL in environmental management and protection, ICEI 2020+1 (International Conference on Ecological Informatics (ICEI)), Nov 9-13, 2021, Kerala, India.

• Programme Committee Member, Machine Learning Advances Environmental Science Workshop (MAES@ICPR2020), Jan. 10-15, 2021, Milan, Italy.

• Keynote speaker, Participatory and Cross-Scale Modelling of Social-Ecological Systems, Oct. 12-16, 2020, Lorentz Center@Snellius.

• co-Chair of the Programme Committee, Enviroinfo 2020 (34th International Environmental Informatics Conference, Digital Twins for Sustainability), Sept. 23-25, 2020 (postponed to March 2021 due to COVID-19), Nicosia, Cyprus.

• Scientific Committee Member. Organizer of two sessions on Distributed computing in smart farming and agro-informatics, and New and improved methods in agricultural systems modelling, iEMSs 2020 (10th International Environmental Modelling and Software Society Conference, Modelling for Environmental Sustainability), Sept. 14-18, 2020 (new dates due to COVID-19), Brussels, Belgium and online.

• Keynote speaker, AI in Natural Sciences and Technology Workshop (AINST@SETN2020), Sept. 2-4, 2020, Athens, Greece.

• General chair of the 13th Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, ISESS 2020 (Data Science in Action), Feb. 5-7, 2020, Wageningen.

• Scientific committee member, organizing a session on Methods and software to support modelling activities, iCropM 2020 (Crop Modelling for the Future), Feb. 3-7, 2020, Montpellier, France.

• Organising committee member, Wageningen Data Science Week, Feb. 3-7, 2020, Wageningen.

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

• Environmental Modelling and Software, (Associate Editor).

• Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, (Managing 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!