VAS TALK: Professor Miel Hostens
The Talk will Illustrate how AI-driven technologies, such as computer vision algorithms and precision livestock farming techniques, are being deployed to monitor animal welfare, detect health issues, optimize farm management practices. Prof. Hostens will outline how the AI holds the potential to revolutionize farming practices, enhance sustainability, and improve overall productivity, and how to combine multimodal AI, edge computing, and federated learning to enable real-time, data-driven decision making on farms.
The Talk will explain how sensor technologies are used in herd management to monitor animal health and welfare. Prof. Hostens will critically discuss opportunities and limitations of using sensor-based systems for improving animal welfare in modern dairy farming.
Miel Hostens is the Robert and Anne Everett Associate Professor of Digital Dairy Management and Data Analytics in the Department of Animal Science and a visiting professor at Ghent University’s Lab for Animal Nutrition and Animal Product Quality. He focuses on the creation of methodologies using precision dairy farming to monitor sustainable food production systems from a global perspective.
Miel has a strong personal vision around the need for more data-driven dairy science through research and industry collaborations. He has been involved in multiple projects on data-driven agriculture and precision dairy farming in various countries around the world.
In 2013, a prototype of an analytical data pipeline and data warehouse architecture he had developed during his PhD was acquired by Delaval, one of the largest milking equipment manufacturers in the world, which was subsequently merged into DairyDataWarehouse.com.
The talk will be held on Thursday 14 May at 14:00-16.30 in Room L111, Department of Veterinary medicine and Animal Sciences, University of Milan, Lodi Campus, via dell’Università 6, Lodi
