Manya V. Afonso

Manya V. Afonso received the B.E. degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Goa University, India, in 2003, the M.Tech. degree in communication engineering from IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree from Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, in 2011. He was a Researcher with the Institute of Telecommunications (IT) and then a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), Lisbon. He is currently a Senior Researcher with the Biometric (Applied Mathematics and Statistics) and the Vision and Robotics Groups, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands. His research interests include image processing and analysis, inverse problems, optimization, machine learning, computer vision, and deep learning, with an emphasis on application to biomedical image analysis, plant science, and agriculture.