dr.ir. I (Ines) Adriaens
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Passionate about technology and (livestock) animals, I develop data-based solutions for the livestock sector in the context of precision livestock farming. I graduated as a Ms. of Bioscience Engineering at KU Leuven in Belgium in 2014, after which I started a PhD in the department of Biosystems. My PhD research focused on the development of online (time-series based) algorithms for fertility and health monitoring, and I defended my PhD thesis successfully in 2018. After this, I continued to pursue a postdoc at Livestock Technology at KU Leuven and broadened my expertise working on statistical modelling, data editing and cleaning, and I collaborated with several research groups throughout Europe. I really appreciate the challenges that working with on-farm data imposes, and the creativity the corresponding solutions require. I strongly believe we should always aim for finding the best models to our problems, and not the other way around, trying to fit our solutions such that using a certain modelling technique can be applied. Since March 2021, I'm employed at WLR in the Animal Breeding and Genomics group, where I will contribute to projects that develop innovative solutions for monitoring of health and welfare in multiple livestock species. To this end, we will mainly use video analysis, machine vision and machine learning techniques. Impact creation and relevance to the sector of the targeted applications are key in this work. Additionally, I commit myself to some open science initiatives, act as a reviewer for scientific journals and am active as a vice-president in the Young EAAP board and the EAAP PLF commission. Never hesitate to reach out!