Thesis subjects by supervisor
Tarek Alskaif
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Energie handelsplatform Roosendaal (MSc)
- A feasibility study of flexible energy assets in a (semi) rural energy hubs -
Data-driven understanding of trading behaviour in energy markets (MSc)
- Europe's energy sector is going through unprecedented challenges mainly caused by the shortage of natural gas imports and a needed shift towards green... -
Blockchain for food waste management (with Wastewatchers.eu) (MSc)
- Blockchain is a shared, immutable ledger that facilitates the process of recording transactions and tracking assets in a network. The application of... -
Digital Twins for Smart Grids (MSc)
- Smart grids symbolize the transition from conventional electricity grids, where electricity flows one-way from generators to consumers, to... -
Data-driven GHG reduction in greenhouses in the Netherlands (BSc/MSc)
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Intelligent solar energy integration in Wageningen university campus (MSc)
- Both European and Dutch climate policies have dictated that serious efforts should be made to reduce carbon emissions and increase the share of... -
Smart systems design for microgrids in agriculture (MSc)
- Microgrids can be conceived as integrated operational and technological systems that help in optimizing sustainable power generation, distribution,... -
Automated Data Extraction of Scientific Literature
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ICT-enabled electric demand flexibility in Dutch greenhouses
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Online matching and negotiations algorithms in P2P energy trading platforms
Önder Babur
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Business Information Analytics for Supply Chain Management (MSc/BSc)
- Managers and decision-makers need up-to-date business intelligence, visualized in dashboards, to be able to respond adequately to potential problems,... -
Automatic recipe creator (MSc/BSc)
- Open datasets such as Open Food Facts, are a great source of information. Within FrieslandCampina we are constantly challenged to use information such... -
Connecting food ontologies and graph databases (MSc/BSc)
- At FrieslandCampina R&D, we deal with large amounts of diverse data and do analytics on them, particularly about food characteristics. Property... -
Digital Twins for Smart Grids (MSc)
- Smart grids symbolize the transition from conventional electricity grids, where electricity flows one-way from generators to consumers, to... -
Deep Learning for Plant disease detection (MSc)
- Reducing crop loss and increasing income is one main objective of farmers. Rapid identification of plant diseases, which stifle plant development, is... -
Low code IoT development in Smart Farming (MSc)
- Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the key enablers of emerging approaches for smart farming (including arable farming, greenhouses, livestock, etc.)... -
Business Process Management in an Agri-Food Domain of Your Choice
- A business process is a specific sequence of activities or steps for a company to produce its products or services. A well-organized and efficient...
Kwabena Bennin
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Happy again! Designing an Application for Grief Support (BSc/MSc)
- This project involves an investigation into the design of a mobile or web-application for supporting individuals experiencing grief. -
Deep Learning for Plant disease detection (MSc)
- Reducing crop loss and increasing income is one main objective of farmers. Rapid identification of plant diseases, which stifle plant development, is...
Cagatay Catal
Gert-Jan Hofstede
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Agent-based modelling of herd size dynamics – assessing the determinants of herd sizes in Africa’s ungulate populations
- Nature conservation organisations need to know population sizes and trends. They have to assess population sizes for this. However, population sizes... -
Watch your step: the cost of taking a short-cut (MSc)
- Use two recently published journal articles as the basis for building a new agent-based model (ABM). The background to the topic of safety culture,...
Will Hurst
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Happy again! Designing an Application for Grief Support (BSc/MSc)
- This project involves an investigation into the design of a mobile or web-application for supporting individuals experiencing grief. -
Virtual Reality: A focus on Human Computer Interaction (BSc / MSc)
- It is quite possible that we will be interacting with VR much more in the near future in our everyday activities. This project involves exploring... -
Trees4socialactivation app (MSc)
- Research internship and/or Master thesis in which a Trees4socialactiviation app will be build and tested. -
Sensor Solutions for Wellbeing Applications (MSc)
- This project investigates the current use of sensor solutions for wellbeing applications, to support individuals living alone with self-limiting... -
What are the roles of virtual and augmented reality in Livestock farming?
- Digital twins can be used within a virtual reality environment to simulate, for instance, a dairy farm. Similarly, augmented reality can be used to... -
Augmented Reality for Real-Time Applications
- Augmented Reality (AR) is finding its way into a wide variety of applications within the smart cities’ domain. The technology offers an...
Ayalew Kassahun
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Task Planning for Farm Robots (MSc)
- Most robots are restricted to a simple sense-plan-act paradigm of task execution and their potential for performing complex tasks is not exploited.... -
Business Process Management in an Agri-Food Domain of Your Choice
- A business process is a specific sequence of activities or steps for a company to produce its products or services. A well-organized and efficient... -
Application of NLP for a question-answering system for novice farmers
- Agriculture is an important sector of the economy of almost every country. The Netherlands exported over €90 billion worth of agricultural goods... -
Implementing standardized business processes using ARIS
- The production and marketing of high-quality animal feed requires more than production facilities. Modern agri-food companies, such as De Heus, are... -
Local food quality labels in the Netherlands
- Supply chains in the Netherlands are increasingly approaching the issue of product quality from the specific perspectives of their end customers. As a... -
What are the roles of virtual and augmented reality in Livestock farming?
- Digital twins can be used within a virtual reality environment to simulate, for instance, a dairy farm. Similarly, augmented reality can be used to...
Yara Khaluf
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The influence of motion patterns for the best-of-n problem in collective decision-making (MSc)
- In this project, we study the influence of motion strategies on collective decisions in mobile multi-agent systems. We will consider 2D environments... -
Information transfer during collective foraging (MSc)
- Many organisms collectively gather resources for survival. When a forager is alone, the efficiency of the foraging process depends heavily on the... -
Can the theory of mind explain irrationality (MSc)
- In psychology, theory of mind (ToM) refers to the capacity to understand other people by ascribing mental states to them. This ability that humans... -
How information spreads in dense communities with triadic sub-patterns (MSc)
- In the field of Artificial Intelligence many problem-solving strategies depend primarily on distributed collective systems. In a collective system, a...
Mark Kramer
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Dimension analysis / Unit checker (MSc)
- Building a tool for analysing consistent use of scientific units in simulation models -
Your own proposal (Software Engineering) (MSc/BSc)
- Bringing your own Software Engineering idea to life -
Co-supervision of thesis project involving software development (MSc/BSc)
- Developing software in the context of a combined thesis project -
Software for another chair group or institute (MSc/BSc)
- Developing software to be used in the real scientific context of another chair group or institute
Qingzhi Liu
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Business Information Analytics for Supply Chain Management (MSc/BSc)
- Managers and decision-makers need up-to-date business intelligence, visualized in dashboards, to be able to respond adequately to potential problems,... -
Automatic recipe creator (MSc/BSc)
- Open datasets such as Open Food Facts, are a great source of information. Within FrieslandCampina we are constantly challenged to use information such... -
Connecting food ontologies and graph databases (MSc/BSc)
- At FrieslandCampina R&D, we deal with large amounts of diverse data and do analytics on them, particularly about food characteristics. Property... -
Low code IoT development in Smart Farming (MSc)
- Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the key enablers of emerging approaches for smart farming (including arable farming, greenhouses, livestock, etc.)... -
Image-based Cow Monitoring System
- As the global demand for agricultural products increases, Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes a valuable solution in the precision agriculture era.... -
Use Reinforcement Learning to Control Greenhouse
- Greenhouse is an important approach in modern agriculture. However, it is difficult to control the greenhouse environment, such as temperature,... -
Use Machine Learning for Processing Data of Remote Sensing
- Wireless sensor networks are widely used in various applications for data collection. With the improvement of hardware, the data size collected by... -
Machine Learning for Evaluating Pet Health
- Note: This is a cooperative project between INF group and Animal Nutrition group of Wageningen University & Research. In this project, we aim to... -
Use Virtual Reality (VR) to Affect Consumer Behavior
- Note: This is a cooperative project between INF group and WFSR group of Wageningen University & Research. Virtual Reality (VR) is one of the... -
Identify Behaviour Patterns in Chicken to Detect Feed Contamination
- Note: This is a cooperative project between INF group and WFSR group of Wageningen University & Research Internet of Things (IoT) is growing...
Sjoukje Osinga
Bedir Tekinerdogan
Joep Tummers
João Valente
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Developing an Aerial-Ground Environmental Sensor Network
- Observing how forests behave is essential to understand complex ecological and economically related processes. Environmental sensor networks can... -
Realtime Apples Detection and Tracking using UAVs
- Autonomous robots or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) can be used to acquire the necessary input (image/video) for yield estimation on centimetre scale.... -
The Cyborg Farmer: The Ultimate Digital Twins Solution
- The emergence of AI and automation has optimized many existing agricultural practices. From applying fertilizer based on soil samples and aerial... -
UAV-based Disease Detection in Grapevines Combining Multispectral Imagery and Artificial Intelligence
- UAVs are a rapid and efficient data gathering system when combined with Geographical information Systems (GIS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In... -
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for Indoor Farming with Drones
- Greenhouses are getting more popular and the existing tend to become modernized. This includes climate control, and crop monitoring which currently is... -
Fawn and Wildlife Sense-and-Avoid System for Agricultural Machinery Supported by Realtime UAV imagery
- Farmers and nature conservationists have been reporting every year several cases where fawn and wildlife specimens, e.g., bird nests, deer’s,... -
Qualitative assessment of ground surfaces with AI and UAV technology
- The understanding of soils mechanics is an important factor to successfully carry out tasks where there’s some sort of interaction with the... -
Apple orchards fruit detection in real time using pre-trained models on images taken by an UAV
- Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have become to play an important role in many tasks in agriculture. They can be used to take thermal, RGB,... -
Development of an autonomous small robot boat for supporting aerial remote sensing in fluvial environments
- The task of sampling aquatic ecosystems is a laborious and expensive work, especially when it comes to cover a very wide area. This work can be... -
Optimization of UAV missions using Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
- The adoption of small and aerial vehicles endowed with cameras and other sensory system has improved the management of several near-earth remote...
Cor Verdouw
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IoT and edge analytics for farming equipment
- In agricultural companies there is a steady increase in amount of farming equipment and machinery with the purpose of optimizing day to day business.... -
Augmented Reality in horticulture: green glasses instead of green fingers
- Labor is one of the biggest challenges in horticulture. More than 25% of all costs of many horticultural companies is labor-based. Temporary staff is... -
Digital Twins for Quality-Controlled Supply Chains of Food and Flowers
- The Food and Flowers sector is a challenging domain from a supply chain management perspective. It needs advanced control systems that can deal with... -
Blockchain-empowered Agri-Food Supply Chains
- Blockchain is a very promising technology that can raise supply chain digitalization in the agri-food sector to a higher level. A blockchain empowered...