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

  1. Research Engineer

    July 2024 — Present Arvalis

    Impact of hedgerows on field crops and water stress in agroforestry.

  2. Ph.D

    May 2021 — May 2024 INRAE | Arvalis

    Intraspecific competition in maize : Observation through in situ phenotyping, in silico modelling, light regime and application to sowing structure optimization.

  3. Research Engineer | Data Scientist

    Feb. 2020 — May 2021 INRAE

    Conducted 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.

  4. Academic projects

    Sept. 2019 — Feb. 2020 L'institut Agro

    Management and estimation of missing data using Deep Learning (Autoencoders).

  5. 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

  1. [FRENCH] AI for agro-ecology : Application to multi-species phenotyping of mixed crops

    Journées scientifiques Agroécologie et Numérique (Dijon) | 2025

    Mario Serouart


  2. 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 | 2025

    Mario Serouart, Raúl López-Lozano, Brigitte Escale, Maëva Baumont, Jean-Charles Deswarte, Lucas Samatan Bernigaud, Marie Weiss and Benoit de Solan


  3. Thesis

    2024

    Mario Serouart


  4. VegAnn, Vegetation Annotation of multi-crop RGB images acquired under diverse conditions for segmentation

    Nature Scientific Data | 2023

    Simon 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


  5. Analyzing Changes in Maize Leaves Orientation due to GxExM Using an Automatic Method from RGB Images

    Plant Phenomics | 2023

    Mario Serouart, Raul Lopez-Lozano, Gaëtan Daubige, Maëva Baumont, Brigitte Escale, Benoit De Solan, Frédéric Baret


  6. SegVeg: Segmenting RGB images into green and senescent vegetation by combining deep and shallow methods

    Plant Phenomics | 2022

    Mario Serouart, Simon Madec, Etienne David, Kaaviya Velumani, Raul Lopez Lozano, Marie Weiss, Frédéric Baret


  7. Maize plasticity characterization through in-field 3D phenotyping

    7th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium (Wageningen) | 2022

    Mario Serouart


  8. Global wheat head detection 2021: an improved dataset for benchmarking wheat head detection methods

    Plant Phenomics | 2021

    Etienne David, Mario Serouart, Daniel Smith, Simon Madec, Kaaviya Velumani, Shouyang Liu, [...] Scott Chapman, Benoit de Solan, Frédéric Baret, Ian Stavness, Wei Guo



Education

  1. Ph.D

    2024 Avignon University & Pays de Vaucluse | Doctoral School 536

    Agronomic Sciences

  2. Dual Master's Degree | Statistics & Agronomy

    2020 L'institut Agro | Rennes
  3. Preparatory classes | BCPST

    2015 Malherbe | Caen

    For entrance examinations to the french grandes écoles.

    Admission and entrance exams based upon highly selective criteria.


Skills

  • LaTeX
    95%
  • Scientific writing
    95%
  • Python
    90%
  • R
    85%
  • AI | Deep Learning
    85%
  • 3D Modeling (Functional & Structural models)
    85%
  • MATLAB
    60%