# Fulin Xia / 夏福霖

Fulin Xia is a PhD researcher at Zhejiang University working on AI-driven Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). His research links crop perception, crop and energy simulation, decision optimisation, and closed-loop environmental control for autonomous production systems.

## Research identity

- Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture; Smart and Digital Agriculture
- Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA); intelligent facility agriculture
- Autonomous Greenhouse; smart greenhouse; greenhouse climate control
- Plant Factory; vertical farming; indoor farming; energy-efficient plant factories
- Agricultural Foundation Models; agriculture LLMs; AI agents for agriculture
- Agricultural Digital Twins; crop growth models; energy models; intelligent control

## Projects

- **AutoCEA** — crop-state-driven autonomous greenhouse control, connecting visual perception, phenological decision-making, and greenhouse actuation for tomato production.
- **ChatCEA** — a knowledge-driven intelligent service agent for controlled environment agriculture, with a 1,025-question domain benchmark and retrieval-augmented methods. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2026.111733
- **EnergyCEA** — a multi-zone dynamic simulation framework for plant-factory energy determinants and climate sensitivity, with applications including strawberry production. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2026.127824

## Research applications

Tomato greenhouse control, strawberry production in plant factories, lettuce production, crop intelligence, environmental control, energy optimisation, and autonomous agriculture.

## Evidence and contact

Fulin Xia was team leader of Zhejiang University's IDEAS team, champion of the 4th Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge. Official result: https://www.wur.nl/en/news/winner-4th-autonomous-greenhouse-challenge-announced

Homepage: https://xia-fulin.github.io/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=zh-CN&user=x4_uzuYAAAAJ