BlueEdge - Artificial Intelligence and optimization for cleaner biotechnological processes

Recycling organic waste and at the same time eliminating pollution, producing fertilizers and energy has become a central issue to achieve sustainable development. Fundamentally, the question is how to recycle nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus within an integrated process involving microorganisms and a reduced flow of pollutants into the natural environment. Associated artificial ecosystems are complex, non-linear, and their dynamics are not accurately represented by models. Therefore, its control and optimization are very challenging. Understanding and controlling such complex systems is the goal of the Blue Edge associate team.

This team is coordinated by Olivier Bernard from the BIOCORE team of Inria centre at Université Côte d'Azur and David Jeison, from the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso, who work within the framework of innovative processes through the use of microalgae in wastewater and aquaculture, with the aim of recycling nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus to reduce the flow of pollutants in the natural environment.

In Blue Edge, experimental pilot systems and models for processes are developed, respectively. Inria Chile participates in this team, and designs advanced artificial intelligence algorithms for data-driven supervision, which can also be implemented thanks to the ODIN+ software.

• Olivier Bernard, researcher, BlueEdge project coordinator, BIOCORE project-team, Inria
• Kilian Bürgi, master student, BIOCORE project-team, Inria
• Francesca Casagli, Postdoc researcher, BIOCORE project-team, Inria
• Ignacio Fierro Ulloa, PhD student, BIOCORE project-team, Inria
• David Jeison, researcher, BlueEdge project coordinator, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso
• Álvaro Torres, researcher, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso
• Jineth Arango, PhD student, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso
• Francois Crouchett, master student, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso
• Aníbal Rojo, master student, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso

• Andrés Donoso, researcher, CETAQUA