About

Fumiya is the Deputy Director for the AgriFoRwArdS CDT, he is also the CDTs Academic Lead at the University of Cambridge.

Read more about Fumiya on his University of Cambridge profile here.

Project Supervision

Primary Supervisor

Cohort 5 Student Catherine Merchant, who is working with Dyson on their PhD project titled ‘Soft Gripper robot arm for vertical farm’.

Cohort 5 Student Amanda Xu on their PhD project titled ‘Developing an Intelligent Soft Robotic Manipulator for High Efficient and Automated Cross – Breeding and Phenotypic Analysis in Agriculture’.

Alumni

Primary Supervisor for Cohort 1 Student Grzegorz Sochacki, who worked with Beko on their PhD project titled ‘Low-Cost Dextrous Robots for Food and Tool Handling’.

Secondary Supervisor for Cohort 1 Student Willow Mandil, who is working with Berry Garden’s on their PhD project titled ‘Data-driven methods for detecting fruit and planning harvesting actions in dense cluster (DPFH)’.

Primary Supervisor for Cohort 2 Student Elijah Almanzor, who is working with Jersey Farmers’ Union on their PhD project titled ‘Automation and Robotization of the Planting of the ‘Jersey Royal’ Potatoes’.