Researcher Silvia Massruhá will be the next president of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation. According to the Brazilian Communication Agency (EBC), the Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Fávaro, said in a personal Instagram account that he will make the nomination. It will be the first time that a woman occupies the position.

According to Fávaro, Silvia “fulfills all the requirements” to assume the position. Born in Passos (MG), she has been at Embrapa since 1989. She holds a degree in Systems Analysis from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, a master’s degree in automation from the Faculty of Electrical and Computing Engineering at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), and holds a PhD in Applied Computing from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe).

Silvia has been ahead of Embrapa Agricultura Digital since September 2021. She leads projects in the area of ​​software engineering, artificial intelligence and scientific computing applied to agriculture. According to data published on the Embrapa website, the sector it directs is responsible for approximately 100 technical-scientific publications and 25 software on the themes of abductive logic, fuzzy logic, machine learning techniques, data mining and texts focused on animal handling and diagnosis of plant diseases.

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