om - research

I employ computer vision, agent-based modeling, network science, and artificial intelligence to study animal behavior and ecology. I am a Ph.D candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder Computer Science Department, and I work in the Peleg Lab and with Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. I wear many hats: data scientist, software engineer, entomologist, physicist, mentor, and avid learner. My main research focus is the signaling behavior of bioluminescent Lampyridae beetles, commonly known as fireflies.

Below are some word clouds from the abstracts of my published and ongoing projects

published

Wordcloud of my work in classifying firefly signals

Embracing firefly flash pattern variability with data-driven species classification
Wordcloud of my work in creating a dataset of firefly flash patterns

Crowdsourced dataset of firefly trajectories obtained by automated stereo calibration of 360-degree cameras
Wordcloud of my work in understanding firefly periodicity

Emergent periodicity in the collective synchronous flashing of fireflies

ongoing

Wordcloud of my work in Colorado firefly behavior

Towards an understanding of Colorado firefly populations with spatiotemporal analysis of flash behavior

Wordcloud of my work in synchronization dynamics

Synchronization dynamics of interacting firefly - LED systems