Tiago Rodrigues Tavares

Tiago is an agronomist with a PhD in Biosystems Engineering and an MBA in Data Science and Machine Learning. He has worked at the Federal University of Goiás (Brazil), the University of Seville (Spain), the University of São Paulo (Brazil), the University of Ghent (Belgium), and the University of Sydney (Australia). In 2022, he received the "Outstanding Graduate Student Award" from the International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA), and his thesis received an honorable mention in the CAPES Thesis Award and the USP Outstanding Thesis Award. He was also recognized by Bayer in the Mentes da Inovação Award, which recognizes young researchers with innovative ideas.

He is currently a postdoctoral researcher, with a FAPESP grant, at the Center for Carbon Research in Tropical Agriculture (CCARBON-USP), evaluating the possibility of using sensors to direct and reduce the number of samples for assessing soil carbon stocks. Furthermore, he is also affiliated with the Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA-USP), collaborating on research to modernize the analysis of agricultural products (soils, plants, and fertilizers) with green chemistry analytical techniques, spectral libraries, and advanced predictive modeling.

Tiago has experience developing sensing approaches and spectral libraries for soil and plant monitoring, both in the laboratory and in the field. His research has explored the frontiers of knowledge in vis-NIR spectroscopy, XRF, and LIBS, predictive modeling strategies with large volumes of data, and the performance evaluation of analytical techniques based on a practical "fit-for-purpose" approach. His goal as a researcher is to contribute to the development of technologies that intensify the monitoring of agricultural systems, promoting data-driven decisions and more sustainable agricultural practices.

Email: tiagosrt@usp.br