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Extra-resilient crops through integration of plant biology, simulation models and AI

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) announced its contribution of 15 million euros to PlantXR, a CropXR research programme into 'smart breeding' of extra resilient crops (eXtra Resilient, XR). This impulse brings CropXR's total budget to over €90 million for the next 10 years. NWO’s grant marks the start of the new Dutch institute CropXR, which integrates plant biology, computational modelling, and artificial intelligence into 'smart breeding methods'. Those will be used to develop crop varieties that are more resilient to climate change and less dependent on chemical crop protection. In CropXR, TU Delft works together with Utrecht University, Wageningen University and Research, the University of Amsterdam and dozens of plant breeding, biotech and processing companies on basic scientific research, data collection and data sharing, education, and advancing broad application of the results.

Outstanding Paper Award for Antragama Ewa Abbas at the 36th Bled eConference

Antragama Ewa Abbas heeft de Outstanding Paper Award gewonnen op de 36e Bled eConference, een van de meest prominente conferenties op het gebied van informatiesystemen.

HIPPO Lab

To make a real impact, AI techniques must consider all stakeholders, and that includes minimizing conflict and protecting vulnerable groups. It’s why the HIPPO Lab is developing next generation, nature-inspired and hyper-heuristic optimisation methods – the methods that can capture conflicts across multiple sectors, regions and generations. We will be using AI-based decision support for addressing complex real-world problems such as climate change mitigation and adaptation.

AI Futures Lab

AI is increasingly widespread, but poses a challenge for designers: it is complex, entangled, plural and indeterminate, and it changes over time. Harms that can result from poorly designed AI systems are both subtle and large scale, and socio-legal contexts evolve in response to the actions of computational systems. New understandings of rights and justice and flexible responses to a changing world are needed, which at the same time support human agency, human rights, wellbeing and justice.

Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Fluid Mechanics

Fluid mechanics, the scientific study of how liquids move and interact, plays an indispensable role in advancing our scientific understanding of the world around us. It is part of the bedrock upon which many areas of science, from physics and engineering to medicine and even ecology, are built. As it stands, science has already deciphered much of its intricate landscape. Yet, many open problems continue to be a frontier of uncharted knowledge, part of which Manuel Gnann’s Vidi research aims to explore.
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M. (Marcela) Tuler de Oliveira

Marcela Tuler de Oliveira MSc is an assistant professor of Trustworthy Data Systems at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, TU Delft.

How to incorporate changing values in new technology?

How can designers of new technology proactively include value change in their design? A team of TU Delft researchers involved in design for values, has written a white paper with practical examples to help designers tackle this issue.

Claudio Ciborra award for Mark de Reuver and Noah Brandwijk

Mark de Reuver (ICT) and Noah Brandwijk (former MOT-student) received the Claudio Ciborra award 2023. The award is for the most innovative paper at the European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS).
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Yuanyuan Xu

PhD candidate, section Safety & Security Science (3S)