Miel Hostens is the Robert and Anne Everett Associate Professor of Digital Dairy Management and Data Analytics in the Department of Animal Science and a visiting professor at Ghent University’s Lab for Animal Nutrition and Animal Product Quality. He focuses on the creation of methodologies using precision dairy farming to monitor sustainable food production systems from a global perspective. 

Miel has a strong personal vision around the need for more data-driven dairy science through research and industry collaborations. He has been involved in multiple projects on data-driven agriculture and precision dairy farming in various countries around the world.

In 2013, a prototype of an analytical data pipeline and data warehouse architecture he had developed during his PhD was acquired by Delaval, one of the largest milking equipment manufacturers in the world, which was subsequently merged into DairyDataWarehouse.com.