Faculty of Science

Bridging AI and wildlife ecology

Physics-based and data-based solutions to handle saturated response areas in unexploded ordnance remediation. 

The ecology and evolution of animal-associated microbiomes and viromes. 

Theoretical modelling and numerical computation for the spinning of hydrogels.

Temperature modulation of host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics

I am broadly interested in developing safe and generalizable multimodal intelligence through algorithms that learn effectively with minimal human supervision. Currently, working on multimodal AI across video, image, audio, and language, with the goal of advancing multimodal understanding, generation, and reasoning.
 

Time and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy of quantum materials

I am working in partnership with the Hakai Institute on the Sentinels of Change Alliance project, monitoring biodiversity in the Salish Sea. I focus primarily on seaweed ecology and biodiversity, in particular the impacts of climate-related stressors on the seasonality, successional dynamics and environmental tolerances of NE Pacific seaweeds.