Silvio José GumiereSilvio José Gumiere has been a professor in the Department of Soil Sciences at Laval University since 2011, after obtaining his Ph.D. in hydrological and erosion modelling from the GAIA doctoral School, Montpellier France. Since 2006 he has been workng on various aspects of soil erosion, hydrology and soil physics as well as on the development of modelling tools for water and soil management in agricultural systems. He is an expert on the application of R-based numerical, statistical and geostatistical methods, such as time series analyses, image and signal processing, erosion modelling and spatial hydrology and spatial interpolation methods. His research has been published in over 50 papers in international journals with over 870 citations. He has also given 70 presentations at national and international conferences. He is a Guest Editor for several special issues on hydrological modelling and machine learning techniques for solving applied science problems in hydrology, soil sciences, soil hydrology and environmental journals. Read More Read Less