Presentation

I am a trained ecologist interested in temporal changes in biodiversity across large spatial and temporal scales (hence, a macroecologist). I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at The Ohio State University in Marta Jarzyna’s lab, and a member of the NSF-funded AI and Biodiveristy Change (ABC) global center.

My current research focuses on developing neural network–based extensions of the dynamic N-mixture models, combining the strengths of hierarchical statistical models and deep learning. This project brings together my enthusiasm for statistical modeling, and ecology.

More broadly, I am interested in understanding the drivers of biodiversity change, both environmental and anthropogenic, and in disentangling the demographic processes (e.g. survival/recruitment, colonization/extinction) underlying observed changes in biodiversity.