Seminar Details
2026-05-12 (13:00) : AI for societal impact: research at the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
At Shannon (Maxwell - a.105)
Duration: 60 minutes
Organized by Computer Science and Engineering
Speaker :
Ratheil V. Houndji (UAC Benin)
Ratheil V. Houndji
Vinasetan Ratheil Houndji is a Lecturer and Researcher in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC) and the Head of the Software Engineering Department at the "Institut de Formation et de Recherche en Informatique (IFRI)". He earned a PhD in Computer Science from UCLouvain and UAC in 2017. His research focuses on AI-based systems and optimization.
Abstract :
This presentation showcases AI research conducted at the University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC) that addresses real-world challenges in agriculture, health, and optimization. It begins with an overview of the AI ecosystem at the UAC, followed by a focus on our team's work in the “Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Informatiques et Applications (LRSIA)”. The talk presents selected projects and ongoing work in three main areas:
- AI for Agriculture, including research on:
- Optimizing tomato yield using machine learning techniques
- Modeling maize (Zea mays) yield in Benin
- Monitoring cotton jassid infestation
- AI for Health, including research on:
- AI for Chronic Kidney Disease
- AI for neurological diseases, specifically for epilepsy
- Optimization, including research on:
- Bias evaluation and mitigation in datasets using constraint programming
- VRP-CC