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DESCRIPTION:Global Environmental Policy Seminar\nDeploying AI for Ecology\n
 AI has been widely proposed as a useful and valuable tool to expand system
 s for monitoring and understanding the natural world\, for diverse taxa in
 cluding wildlife\, plants\, insects\, and even microbes\, in order to dete
 rmine how to best conserve and protect these ecosystems. However\, ecologi
 cal data collected in the field presents a number of challenges that curre
 nt AI methods struggle to overcome. These include strong spatiotemporal co
 rrelations\, imperfect data quality\, fine-grained categories\, and long-t
 ailed distributions. In this talk\, I will introduce several research proj
 ects that address these challenges through the development of AI methods a
 nd expert-in-the-loop systems\, and set new priorities for the AI research
  community to ensure that application-driven innovation in this space matc
 hes the needs of the diverse community of end users of these technologies\
 , from land managers to scientists to policy-makers.\n \n\nBiography:\nSar
 a Beery is an assistant professor at MIT EECS' Faculty of AI and Decision 
 Making and CSAIL\, and she was previously a visiting researcher at Google 
 working on Auto Arborist. Sara has always loved the natural world\, and ha
 ve seen a growing need for technology-based approaches to conservation and
  sustainability challenges. Her research focuses on building computer visi
 on methods that enable global-scale environmental and biodiversity monitor
 ing across data modalities\, tackling real-world challenges including stro
 ng spatiotemporal correlations that lead to domain shift\, imperfect data 
 quality\, fine-grained categories\, and long-tailed distributions. Sara re
 ceived her PhD in Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at Caltech\, a
 dvised by Pietro Perona\, where she received the Amori Doctoral Prize for 
 my dissertation. Sara has been honored to be awarded an AI2050 Early Caree
 r Fellowship\, a PIMCO Data Science Fellowship an Amazon AI4Science Fellow
 ship\, and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Sara’s work has been su
 pported by the NSF\, NASA\, Google\, Microsoft\, IBM\, the USAF\, MIT J-WA
 FS\, and the Caltech Resnick Sustainability Institute.\n\n\nSara seeks to 
 break down knowledge barriers between fields: she founded the successful A
 I for Conservation slack community (with over 2500 members)\, she is Co-PI
  on the NSF/NSERC Global Center on AI and Biodiversity Change\, she is the
  Biodiversity Community Lead for Climate Change AI\, and is the founding d
 irector of the Caltech Summer School on Computer Vision Methods for Ecolog
 y. Sara works closely with industry\, including the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab\
 , Microsoft AI for Good\, Google Research\, Wildlife Insights\, and Wild M
 e where she helps turn her research into usable\, deployed tools.\n \n\n*E
 nvironmental Social Sciences Seminars are in person only*
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LOCATION:Y2E2 Building\, 299
SUMMARY:Global Environmental Policy Seminar "Deploying AI for Ecology."
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/global-environmental-policy
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