Francisco Rovira-Más

Francisco Rovira-Más received a degree in Agricultural Engineering in 1996 from the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, where he was an Assistant Professor from 1997 to 2000. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2003 in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IL, USA). He has been a member of the Intelligent Vehicles System group at the John Deere Technology Center in Moline (IL, USA). He has also been a Research Associate with the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering in the University of Illinois, conducting research at the John Deere Intelligent Vehicle Systems unit (formerly Agricultural Management Solutions –AMS) in Urbandale (IA, USA). Currently, Francisco is a professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain and director of the Agricultural Robotics Laboratory. In 2014 he was a visiting professor at Kyoto University in Japan. His research interests include autonomous vehicles, machine vision, controls, off-road equipment automation, digital agriculture, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Francisco has been granted six US patents and a European patent. He was the technical manager of the European project VineRobot and the coordinator of the EU H2020 FTI project VineScout. At present, he is the coordinator of project Cerberus, funded with 4.8 M€ and involving 13 institutions from Slovenia, Italy, Cyprus, and Spain.