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CDT SUPERVISORS
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Professor Marc Hanheide

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Primary Supervisor

Long-term autonomy, agri-robotics, robotic navigation and mapping, Human-Robot Interaction

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Dr Milan Markovic

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Primary Supervisor

Transparency, knowledge graphs, provenance, Large Language Models, carbon accounting

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Dr Francesco Del Duchetto

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Primary Supervisor

Human-Robot Interaction, cognitive robotics, Machine Learning, long-term autonomy

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Professor Greg Keeffe

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Secondary Supervisor

Urban agriculture, sustainability, rewilding

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Dr Mamatha Thota

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Secondary Supervisor

Machine Learning, domain adaptation, lifelong learning, foundation models, multi-modal learning, AI for food packaging, yield forecasting, vertical farming

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Dr Matthias Kuhnert

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Secondary Supervisor; Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

Environmental modelling

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Professor Vladimir Stankovic

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary & Secondary Supervisor

Signal and information processing related to climate change and sustainability, including energy efficiency, demand flexibility, and e-mobility

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Professor Lina Stankovic

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary Supervisor

Trustworthy AI for NetZero especially w.r.t Energy end-use, non-intrusive load monitoring, quantifying carbon and GHG emissions

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Dr Linda Oyama

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary Supervisor

Application of AI to tackling the antimicrobial resistance problem in sustainable agricultural production and technologies

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Dr Arran Hodgkinson

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary Supervisor

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Professor David McKee

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary Supervisor

Marine optics and remote sensing

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Dr Steven Owens

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

Geospatial data, AI and the application to ESG regulations

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Dr Mingjun Zhong

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

Machine Learning, data science, computational statistics

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Professor Paulo Prodöhl

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

Biodiversity, population & conservation genetics; genomics; aquaculture impacts; fisheries management

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Dr Oorbessy Gaju

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

Nitrogen use efficiency, photosynthesis, high throughput phenotyping, crop breeding

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Professor Elizabeth Sklar

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Primary Supervisor

Multi-robot and human-robot teaming, behaviour mining, data-backed decision making

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Professor Hui Wang

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Primary Supervisor

Machine Learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, and their applications in image, video, spectra and text data analyses

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Dr Aiden Durrant

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Primary Supervisor; Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary Supervisor

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, learning without labels

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Professor Anil Fernando

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Secondary Supervisor

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Dr Paul Williams

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Secondary Supervisor

Environmental/elemental metrology, understanding plant-soil interactions and improved soil management

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Professor Ilias Kyriazakis

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Secondary Supervisor; Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

Automated health and welfare detection, environmental impact of agri-food systems, animal resilience, simulation modelling

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Professor Chris Creevey

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary & Secondary Supervisor

Computational biology, microbiology, One Health, phylogenetics, evolution, ecology

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Dr Roslyn Henry

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary Supervisor

Biodiversity, modelling, land use change, sustainable agriculture

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Dr Athanasios Polydoros

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary Supervisor

Robot learning, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

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Dr Karen Siu Ting

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary Supervisor

Bioinformatics, genomics, ecology, evolution, biodiversity

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Professor Nir Oren

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

Argumentation, multi-agent systems, trust, decision-making

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Professor James Windmill

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

Bioacoustics, acoustic engineering, ultrasonics, sustainable engineering, microscopy

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Professor Mark Swainson

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

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Dr Fabio Manfredini

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

Evolutionary ecology of social behaviour, ecology of pollination; insect neurogenomics

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Professor Paul Murray

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Primary Supervisor

Signal processing, image processing, video processing, hyperspectral imaging, artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, image stitching, mathematical morphology

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Professor Jo Smith

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Primary Supervisor

Soil organic matter and nutrient dynamics, systems modelling

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Dr Leonardo Guevara

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Secondary Supervisor

Agri-robotics, Human-Robot Interactions, Human-Centered Automation, Artificial Intelligence

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Dr David McBey

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Secondary Supervisor

Sustainable and healthy diets, food choice

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Professor Georgios Leontidis

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Secondary Supervisor; Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary & Secondary Supervisor

Machine Learning, multimodal systems, large scale forecasting, yield forecasting and optimisation

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Professor Christos Tachtatzis

Cohort 1 (2024/25) Secondary Supervisor; Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

Computer and Machine Vision, remotesensing, hyperspectral imaging, precision farming

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Dr Robert Atkinson

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary & Secondary Supervisor

Artificial Intelligence

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Dr Dan Magnone

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary Supervisor

Groundwater, geochemistry, water resources

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Dr Niall McLaughlin

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary Supervisor

Computer Vision, multiple-object tracking, re-identification, behaviour analysis, Deep Learning

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Professor Craig Michie

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Primary Supervisor

Sensor systems, AI and data analytics

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Dr Nick Birse

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

Food safety and security, analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry, AI and chemometric modelling

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Dr Lan Qie

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

Ecosystem functioning and resilience, biodiversity, rewilding and nature recovery, wetland restoration, carbon dynamics

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Professor Simon Parsons

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

Explainable AI, computer vision, plant phenotyping, decision making

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Professor Tom Jefferies

Cohort 2 (2025/26) Secondary Supervisor

Futures, architecture, design, landscape, cities, sustainability, net-zero, climate emergency, anthropocene, agriculture, art, heritage

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