Stephan van der Westhuizen

Stephan is a lecturer at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and a PhD candidate at WUR. His PhD research is on developing modelling frameworks in which machine learning models can incorporate measurement error  in digital soil mapping. He will also investigate ways of mapping soil properties with multivariate machine learning, as well as mapping soil thickness with machine learning. Stephan is supervised by Gerard Heuvelink (WUR, ISRIC), Laura Poggio (ISRIC) and David Hofmeyr (Stellenbosch University).