Research Projects

My primary research is in improving bioacoustic monitoring systems, with a focus on machine learning and microphone array processing. I’ve worked on projects in both terrestrial and marine environments, including localization and density estimation of beaked whales, abudance estimation of critically endangered north Atlantic right whales, unsupervised clustering of intraspecific bird calls, and leveraging techniques from spatial audio to separate overlapping birdsong in a dawn chorus. I also have experience with fieldwork, and, in partnership with local researchers, have deployed acoustic recorders to monitor the ecosystem impact of the reintroduction of a bison herd. In earlier years, I worked in robotics, with a focus trajectory optimization, as well as interdisciplinary graduate projects in shape/image processing, gait analysis, and handwriting analysis. My undergraduate research focused on quantitative ecology.