Thesis subjects by supervisor
Tarek Alskaif
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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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Data-driven simulation platform of solar energy potential in Dutch farms
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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
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Blockchain and IoT enabled smart agriculture and food traceability
Önder Babur
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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.)... -
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... -
Open Source Software in the Agri-Food Domain (MSc)
- Software technologies are gaining momentum and pervasiveness in the agri-food domain with recent developments such as smart farming and internet of... -
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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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... -
Open Source Software in the Agri-Food Domain (MSc)
- Software technologies are gaining momentum and pervasiveness in the agri-food domain with recent developments such as smart farming and internet of...
Cagatay Catal
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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... -
Digital Diagnostic Tool For Foot and Mouth Disease
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Predictive Analytics in Data Mining of Chemical Profiles
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Automatic Wild Fauna Video-Monitoring in Outdoor Facility of Poultry Flock
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,... -
Simulating Tourism Water Consumption with Stakeholders
- The SIMTWIST project is the abbreviation for Simulating Tourism Water Consumption with Stakeholders. This project intends to carry out... -
Creating socially intelligent virtual agents
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Agent-based model Too much talent
Will Hurst
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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... -
Bringing Reality to Food Waste in the Catering Industry (BSc / MSc)
- Food waste is a significant problem in the current economy. In the Netherlands, about 9.5% of individually bought food is wasted, this equates to 34,3... -
Immersive Technologies for Geo-Spatial Planning
- AR/VR is ideal for communication, collaboration and facilitates a better understanding of environments in finer detail. This is particularly useful... -
Investigating Waste Behaviours in Urban Environments
- Urbanisation is surging, with over half of the human population predicted to live in an urban environment in the near future. This growth will place a... -
How 3D Printing Impacts the Agriculture and Food Supply Chain
- 3D printing is a disruptive technology that caters for mass customisation of products and the production process. It has thus the potential to disrupt... -
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... -
The Evolving Digital User Experience (UX) during the Covid19 Pandemic
- The work environment has changed for many people during 2020. Working from home is both expected and has become the norm. Companies have been required... -
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... -
A Study into MMORPG Social Mechanics
- This research project will involve developing a socially-driven prototype Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) using a pre-existing... -
Football’s Battle for Home Field and Environmental Advantage
- Combatting pests/diseases with pesticides poses environmental risks and alternative solutions are needed. Digital twins could allow us to unravel the...
Ayalew Kassahun
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Using social systems to predict adoption of technology (BSc/MSc))
- Using social system framework for predicting adoption rate of technology in animal farming in Southeast Asia (particularly in Indonesia and Vietnam).... -
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... -
How 3D Printing Impacts the Agriculture and Food Supply Chain
- 3D printing is a disruptive technology that caters for mass customisation of products and the production process. It has thus the potential to disrupt... -
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...
Mark Kramer
Qingzhi Liu
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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.)... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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.... -
Collaborative Agricultural Platform with Chatbot
- A chatbot is a software that conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods. In recent years, chatbot has more functions based on artificial... -
Monitor Sleep Activity using Thermopile Infrared Sensors
- Sleep activity is one crucial factor for understanding the quality of human life. However, traditional sleep monitoring systems are not well accepted... -
Monitor Activity of Wild Animals using Thermopile Infrared Sensors and Cameras
- Wild animal monitoring is important for preservation of various endangered species. Wildlife monitoring system has progressed with the development of...
Sjoukje Osinga
Bedir Tekinerdogan
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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... -
Product Line Engineering for Precision Farming
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Reference Architecture Design of Agroparks
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Multiple Data Science MSc Assignments for the Horticulture Sector
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Workflow Patterns for Supply Chain Management Systems
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System Dynamics of Software Ecosystems
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MSc thesis subject: Architecting the Software Ecosystem for Agricultural Applications
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System Dynamics of Agroparks
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Software Architecture Design for Smart Farming
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Decision Support System for Smart Farming
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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
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,... -
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...