AI Expert Joins 十大赌博正规老平台’s 环保创新中心

Will Accelerate 精密的保护 Efforts

安纳波利斯, 医学博士库马尔·迈纳利, an expert in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), has joined 十大赌博正规老平台’s 环保创新中心’s technology team. The position is funded by a grant from the Grayce B. 克尔基金. Mainali, a geospatial data scientist, holds a Ph.D. 在生态学和管理学中.S. in statistics, both from the University of Texas at Austin. He then joined the University of Maryland’s department of biology as a postdoctoral associate where he was advised by Bill Fagan, professor and chair of the department. His research career includes 31 projects in conservation biology, 生态, 生物地理学, 气候变化, 人类微生物组, 动物行为, 还有遥感. 在十大赌博正规老平台区, his focus will be on accelerating the science behind our precision conservation data.

“I am thrilled to join the 环保创新中心’s team. I am passionate about working on burning issues of conservation and environment. These are by far the most rewarding and where AI holds great promise to accelerate our impact,迈纳利说。.

AI for the Bay As a Model for the Nation

“Kumar hit the ground running and is already working on a broad range of projects. He is applying the most powerful algorithms of artificial intelligence toward solving important environmental problems in the Chesapeake and beyond,” said 十大赌博正规老平台 Director of Conservation Technology Jeffrey Allenby. “We are very grateful to Grayce B. 克尔基金 for funding this position, which will magnify the power of our data through the use of deep learning.”

“It is quite rare for a nonprofit to have an AI expert in-house and this investment is an indication of how the 环保创新中心 is emerging as a powerhouse in data-driven conservation across the country. 谢谢格雷斯·B. 克尔基金 for believing in our innovative work in precision conservation and taking our efforts to the next level,” said 十大赌博正规老平台 President & 首席执行官乔尔·邓恩. “Our goal is to arm all organizations–here in the Chesapeake and beyond–with access to the most accurate data available. 信息就是力量, and the smallest nonprofits or local governments will have the same access to this information as those that are more well-funded. This is the democratization of data, and it will empower precision conservation.”

One of the first projects Mainali will tackle uses AI to identify the land cover type of every square meter of the Chesapeake Bay. 通过机器学习, he is teaching the computer to detect a forest, 灌木, or a tree over a sidewalk or a building at a fine spatial scale and with very high accuracy. Mainali is also conducting an analysis of water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, crunching time series data of water quality from various locations.

Colorado Calls on CIC’s Expertise

Mainali’s expertise is already being shared outside of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, including a project concerning water flow management in Colorado in an area where water is a scarce resource. To help manage the demands of water for agriculture and wildlife, Mainali wrote algorithms that optimize the water flow and release from reservoirs by various agencies. These algorithms will be used for informed decision making about sharing the responsibility of water release from multiple reservoirs on a daily basis.

“十大赌博正规老平台 is a small but mighty nonprofit that has proven that anyone with a big idea can change the world. Their approach to data driven conservation in the Chesapeake has caught global attention as their model has the potential to be replicated worldwide,卢卡斯·约帕说, Microsoft’s chief environmental officer. “We look forward to seeing where the power of AI takes their work next.”

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