I am a PhD student in Artificial Intelligence at Oregon State University in the MLQUeST Lab, advised by Prof Rebecca A. Hutchinson. I’m interested in applying machine learning to biodiversity and wildlife conservation, more specifically in species distribution models and using computer vision to identify species.

Before my PhD, I obtained my Master’s degree from UMass Amherst where I got to work with Prof Subhransu Maji and Prof Grant Van Horn on building species distribution models using citizen science data. Prior to that I worked in industry as a software engineer at Microsoft.

Research Interests: Computational Sustainability and Public Interest Technology.
Hobbies: Biking, Running, Spotting Wildlife, and Listening to Podcasts.

News:

06/26 Completed my first year of my PhD program. Learning a lot about bayesian statistical modeling and probablistic graphical models!
04/26 Presented a poster at the Confluence symposium hosted by the FWCS dept. at OSU on Exploring MCMC for N-Mixture Models. And I had a lovely time attending the Imageomics Conference at Ohio State Univeristy.
09/25 Started AI Phd program at Oregon State University.
06/25 Presented poster for “Investigating Different Geo Priors for Image Classification” at the FGVC workshop at CVPR.
05/25 Co-Authored Feedforward Few-shot Species Range Estimation work that was presented at ICML. Congrats Chris!