Applied AI / Data science / Research

Scientific depth.
Real-world purpose.

We bring AI, data science and scientific expertise to problems that don’t come with a ready-made answer.

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Publications & supervision ↓

A sweeping view of green and gold agricultural fields, villages and woodland.
Agricultural landscape

From satellite imagery and information networks to environmental monitoring and plant biology: our work starts with the question, then finds the right method.

Selected work

Expertise, put to work.

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Radar image of Kirkouk with predicted building-area boundaries outlined in green.
Andrey Malakhov & Alessandro Patruno / Team Zephyros. ESA Φ-lab

01 / Earth observation

Building footprints from space

Machine learning for building-footprint segmentation, bringing Earth-observation data to humanitarian planning.

AI4EO · UNOSAT / ESA Φ-lab

Project Heimdall dashboard showing tweet activity, sentiment and keyword analysis.
Zephyros Solutions · Project Heimdall prototype

02 / Natural language & networks

AI for information integrity

Transformer models and graph analysis to investigate disinformation surrounding 5G deployment.

Province of Zuid-Holland · Project Heimdall

Air-quality sensor suspended outside an Amsterdam home during the Urban AirQ pilot.
Photograph: Waag · Urban AirQ

03 / Citizen science

Measuring the air we share

Citizen participation in air-quality monitoring around two busy streets in central Amsterdam.

Urban AirQ · Making Sense

Published rice-plant comparison: ZBED control and overexpression lines in drought-response experiments.
Photographic detail, Figure 4 · Zuluaga et al. (2020) · CC BY

04 / Life sciences

Understanding plant resilience

Investigating how rice can maintain disease resistance while responding to drought stress.

BED protein domain · Research at INRA

Research in the open

Publications & research supervision

Selected publications co-authored by our team, alongside doctoral research supervision. A record of work across AI, environmental measurement and life sciences.

Publication · 2025

Genome mining to elucidate antimicrobial and plant growth promoting potentials in Lactic acid bacteria ↗

Vargas, Botero, Rodriguez, Dávila, Racedo, Barrera, Bernal, Jiménez, Zuluaga & González.

European Journal of Plant Pathology

Publication · 2023

Transformers and GNNs for Fake News Detection ↗

Bocconi, S., Patruno, A. & Malakhov, A.

MediaEval 2022 Workshop · Bergen, Norway · CEUR, Vol. 3583

Publication · 2022

Drought as a modulator of plant–virus–vector interactions: Effects on symptom expression, plant immunity and vector behaviour ↗

Vasquez, Hernandez, Torres, Borrero-Echeverry, Zuluaga & Rincon.

Plant Pathology

Publication · 2018

Field calibration of electrochemical NO₂ sensors in a citizen science context ↗

Mijling, B., Jiang, Q., de Jonge, D. & Bocconi, S.

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11(3), 1297–1312

PhD supervision

Application and development of advanced mathematical tools for population and time series analysis in pulsar astrophysics ↗

Rodriguez Garcia, C. · Supervised by Dr. Alessandro Patruno.

PhD thesis · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona repository

Capabilities

Across disciplines.
Grounded in evidence.

About Zephyros

A scientific way of thinking.

Zephyros Solutions brings together backgrounds in astrophysics, machine learning, econometrics and scientific research. We connect careful analysis with practical software to investigate complex, real-world questions.

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