SEC scholar 3 August – 15 September 2026
Taniya Kapoor is an Assistant Professor in the Artificial Intelligence Group at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on AI for science, with particular attention to two key challenges: limited data and computational cost. She develops physics-informed and engineering-informed machine learning methods that integrate physical knowledge, simulations, and data to build more reliable and efficient AI models. Prior to this position, she was awarded an AI Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford and completed her PhD and postdoctoral research at TU Delft, where she worked on generalization in physics-informed machine learning.
During her visit at Digital Futures, Taniya will collaborate with her host, Prof. Vilaplana, and the research team on developing physics-informed machine learning tools for sustainable food processing. The primary objective of her visit is to explore how AI, combined with governing physical laws and experimental or simulation data, can help predict and improve the structure and texture of plant-based foods. She will lay the foundation for future collaborations, publications, and funding opportunities between KTH Food, Digital Futures, and Wageningen University.
Contact: taniya.kapoor@wur.nl
