I'm a Ph.D focused on Biomathematics.
My research work involves creation of 3D light-canopy models, ray-tracing light regime computation, 2D and 3D Deep Learning high-troughput phenotyping and crop stress identification. I also have strong abilities in computer and data science.
Resume
Experience
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Research Engineer
July 2024 — Present ArvalisImpact of hedgerows on field crops and water stress in agroforestry.
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Ph.D
May 2021 — May 2024 INRAE | ArvalisIntraspecific competition in maize : Observation through in situ phenotyping, in silico modelling, light regime and application to sowing structure optimization.
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Research Engineer | Data Scientist
Feb. 2020 — May 2021 INRAEConducted a study on the sensitivity to spatial scale in pixel- and image-based methods.
Developed Deep and Shallow learning models for pixel segmentation of high-resolution RGB images, distinguishing abiotic stress.
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Academic projects
Sept. 2019 — Feb. 2020 L'institut AgroManagement and estimation of missing data using Deep Learning (Autoencoders).
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Data Scientist
June 2018 — Oct. 2018 University of Zürich (Switzerland)Conducted anomaly detection and prediction based on Thermodynamics principles for the prominent national retailer (MIGROS).
Peer reviewed publications
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[FRENCH] AI for agro-ecology : Application to multi-species phenotyping of mixed crops
Journées scientifiques Agroécologie et Numérique (Dijon) | 2025Mario Serouart
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Identifying maize architectural ideotypes through 3D structural model validated in the field: Assessing the impact of plant architecture and sowing pattern to improve canopy light regime
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture | 2025Mario Serouart, Raúl López-Lozano, Brigitte Escale, Maëva Baumont, Jean-Charles Deswarte, Lucas Samatan Bernigaud, Marie Weiss and Benoit de Solan
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Thesis
2024Mario Serouart
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VegAnn, Vegetation Annotation of multi-crop RGB images acquired under diverse conditions for segmentation
Nature Scientific Data | 2023Simon Madec, Kamran Irfan, Kaaviya Velumani, Frederic Baret, Etienne David, Gaetan Daubige, Lucas Bernigaud Samatan, Mario Serouart, Daniel Smith, Chrisbin James, Fernando Camacho, Wei Guo, Benoit De Solan, Scott C Chapman, Marie Weiss
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Analyzing Changes in Maize Leaves Orientation due to GxExM Using an Automatic Method from RGB Images
Plant Phenomics | 2023Mario Serouart, Raul Lopez-Lozano, Gaëtan Daubige, Maëva Baumont, Brigitte Escale, Benoit De Solan, Frédéric Baret
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SegVeg: Segmenting RGB images into green and senescent vegetation by combining deep and shallow methods
Plant Phenomics | 2022Mario Serouart, Simon Madec, Etienne David, Kaaviya Velumani, Raul Lopez Lozano, Marie Weiss, Frédéric Baret
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Maize plasticity characterization through in-field 3D phenotyping
7th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium (Wageningen) | 2022Mario Serouart
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Global wheat head detection 2021: an improved dataset for benchmarking wheat head detection methods
Plant Phenomics | 2021Etienne David, Mario Serouart, Daniel Smith, Simon Madec, Kaaviya Velumani, Shouyang Liu, [...] Scott Chapman, Benoit de Solan, Frédéric Baret, Ian Stavness, Wei Guo
Education
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Ph.D
2024 Avignon University & Pays de Vaucluse | Doctoral School 536Agronomic Sciences
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Dual Master's Degree | Statistics & Agronomy
2020 L'institut Agro | Rennes -
Preparatory classes | BCPST
2015 Malherbe | CaenFor entrance examinations to the french grandes écoles.
Admission and entrance exams based upon highly selective criteria.
Skills
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LaTeX
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Scientific writing
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Python
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R
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AI | Deep Learning
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3D Modeling (Functional & Structural models)
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MATLAB
60%