Prof Nik Cunniffe
Research Interests
Mathematical modelling of the spread, detection, evolution and control of plant and tree diseases
Find about more about Nik on his University of Cambridge profile here.
Project Supervision
Primary Supervisor
Cohort 3 CDT Student Rachel Trimble, who is working with Defra on their PhD project titled ‘Using reinforcement learning to optimise adaptive control of invading plant disease epidemics’.
Secondary Supervisor:
Cohort 3 CDT Student Xumin Gao, who is working with the British Beet Research Organisation on their PhD project titled ‘AphidNet: automatic aphid recognition and counting based on field water trap imagery by deep learning’.