Dr. Xanthoula Eirini Pantazi an Associate Professor in Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering, Aristotle University, School of Agriculture, Greece. She holds a PhD in Biosystems Engineering and is an expert in bio-inspired computational systems and data mining. Her research interests include sensor & data fusion, IoT data handling & management, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence models, for precision farming applications including yield prediction, postharvest quality assessment, plant stress detection and non-destructive sensing of bio-material and crop protection. She has been involved in several EU projects and ERANET and has developed apps for FIWARE future Internet applications based on Neural Network applications. Her recent research interests consider bioinformatic applications in field phenotyping with autonomous platforms (e.g. UAV, robots) and application of active learning in a number of sectors
from condition monitoring, crop status determination, weed species recognition as well as post-harvest quality determination. She has been involved to the formation of DSS prototype systems for the application of hydro-fertilization and crop protection application in variable rates. Her publications in peer-reviewed international journals, collective volumes and conference proceedings exceed 50 (>3000 citations, h-index 21). She has participated in >18 research projects funded by national funding bodies and she has served as coordinator of the HORIZON 2020 project SiEUSOIL (Sino- EU Soil Observatory for intelligent Land Use Management, Grant agreement no: 818346). She is the main author of the monograph “Intelligent Data Mining and Fusion Systems in Agriculture” (ISBN: 9780128143919).