Dr Benno Simmons

Ecology and Conservation
Benno is an ecologist and conservationist who uses use data science, AI and technology to help understand and reverse biodiversity loss. He has broad interests, but some specific projects being worked on at the moment are: using deep learning to automate the identification of rare species in camera trap images; using large datasets of species population trends to understand global biodiversity change; assessing the potential for other effective area-based conservation measures to support marine biodiversity; combining camera traps and bioacoustics to automatically monitor lion populations in Africa; using global datasets of species interaction networks to predict the impacts of invasive species on ecological communities; using machine learning to forecast the productivity of the Amazon from climate models.