Assistant Professor Smart Diagnostics and Monitoring for Precision AgroFood

The Delft Center for Systems and Control (DCSC) is aiming to strengthen, expand, and renew its international competences through new recruitments. We are looking for excellent candidates with a proven track record of ground breaking scientific research, a challenging and innovative research program, and a commitment to higher education. As part of this initiative, we are offering a tenure-track assistant professor position for a period of 6 years, leading to a permanent position assuming excellent performance. During the tenure track, the candidate will have the opportunity to develop into an internationally acknowledged and recognized academic. To this aim, we offer a structured career and personal development program.

Precision agriculture and data-driven intelligent decision-making and control systems in AgTech are becoming increasingly critical in meeting sustainable food production and economical / ecological / societal goals in the 21st century.
This position aims at the integration of smart diagnostic methodologies and end-to-end decision-support system design for smart and precision agriculture. This includes the development of novel approaches to the analysis, monitoring, prediction, and control of various biological processes (such as plant development, ground water levels, soil composition, ecological networks, etc).
Preferred expertise may include (but is not limited to) the following topics:

• Multi-sensor fusion, model reduction, optimization, control, and monitoring of nonlinear distributed-parameter systems.
• Data-driven and model-based fault/anomaly detection and condition monitoring for agriculture or high-tech systems.
• Systems biology, bioinformatics, and machine learning for next generation AgTech systems (such as crop/seed development).

The department Delft Center for Systems and Control (DCSC) of the faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, coordinates the education and research activities in systems and control at Delft University of Technology. The Centers' research mission is to conduct fundamental research in systems dynamics and control, involving dynamic modelling, advanced control theory, optimisation and signal analysis. The research is motivated by advanced technology development in physical imaging systems, renewable energy, robotics and transportation systems.