Academic Profiles
Dr Konstantinos Ferentinos is a Research Director at the Soil and Water Resources Institute (Department of Agricultural Engineering) of the Hellenic Agricultural Organization - DIMITRA (ELGO-DIMITRA), and an Associate Editor of the scientific journal "Biosystems Engineering" (Elsevier). He holds a degree in Agricultural Engineering from the Agricultural University of Athens (1997), as well as a Master of Science (1999) and a PhD (2002) from the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University (USA), with a minor in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence). He has collaborated as a lecturer and researcher with various institutions (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Department of Mathematics), Agricultural University of Athens (Computer Science Laboratory), University of Thessaly, Technological Educational Institute of the Ionian Islands, Cornell University), and has published more than 30 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and more than 50 in international scientific conferences, while also holding two international patents (USA). His main research interests include intelligent information systems in agricultural engineering, artificial intelligence, wireless sensor networks, controlled environment agriculture, and hydroponics.
