I develop and apply machine learning techniques, informed by (mostly marine) ecological questions and engineering constraints, to facilitate observing systems that address long-standing scientific questions with societal relevance. I lead the AI team at the UK National Oceanography Centre where we work on problems ranging from decision making on autonomus systems to developing new approaches for analyzing global-scale model output.

News

• 2024-06-18 We presented early results from the FathomNet2024 competition at the 11th Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization at CVPR.
• 2024-01-17 The paper on digital holotyping resulting from Schmidt Ocean’s Designing the Future Two cruise was published in Science Advances.
• 2024-01-15 PAIDIVER, our project developing software to support estimating biodiversity metrics from image data, has been funded by the NERC AIAB program!
• 2023-12-16 Dani Ocampo presented our workshop paper on VLM failure modes for image of organisms at the I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better Workshop at NuerIPS 2023.
• 2023-12-15 I was an invited panelist at the Computational Sustainability workshop at NeurIPS 2023.