About

Simon Parsons is Professor of AI and Machine Learning. His research examines how intelligent systems make decisions, whether on their own, in groups, or in conjunction with humans. At Lincoln he has been particularly interested in the application of AI and Machine Learning methods for robotic harvesting and robotic phenotyping.

Find out more about Simon on his University of Lincoln profile here.

Project Supervision

Primary Supervisor:

Cohort 2 Student Grey Churchill, who is working with Syngenta on their PhD project titled ‘Machine learning-based vision for “green-on-green” spraying‘.

Secondary Supervisor:

Cohort 2 Student Jack Foster, who is working with Dyson Farming on their PhD project titled ‘Collaborative Lifelong Learning for Robust Site-Specific Crop Management’.

Cohort 3 Student Rachel Russell, who is working with Defra on their PhD project titled ‘Using reinforcement learning to optimise adaptive control of invading plant disease epidemics’.

Cohort 5 Student George Davies, who is working with NIAB on their PhD project titled ‘Beyond the visible – spectral imaging and analysis for crop health and yield monitoring’.