Miel Hostens
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How AI can transform the entire agricultural industry, or not
Miel Hostens
Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Miel Hostens has an MSc in Veterinary Medicine at the Ghent University (Belgium) in 2006 and a PhD in Veterinary Medicine in 2012. He also obtained a professional certificate in Epidemiology and Bioinformatics and to further deepen his data science expertise, he enrolled in a MSc in Computational Statistics in 2016. He has attracted multiple projects on data-driven agriculture and precision dairy farming overseas. The unique combination of data and dairy science in an academic profile was the main reason for attracting him as Associate Professor of Digital Dairy Management and Data Analytics at the Department of Animal Science at Cornell University. His lab focuses on developing a data-driven dairy science eventually contributing to sustainable food production systems from a global perspective.
