Fabian Guignard is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science and one of four UniBE Venture Fellows 2023. As part of his Venture Fellowship, he is developing an artificial intelligence-based tool that provides farmers with personalised wheat variety recommendations. The recommendations are based on data such as local weather conditions and previous crop yields, and are designed to help improve crop yield and quality.

For Guignard, the long history of statistics and agronomy is one of the reasons why new technologies based on artificial intelligence have a place in agriculture.