Biodiversity Monitoring

Biodiversity Monitoring opens up a much bigger data question. We talked shop with Hager Radi about her biodiversity monitoring work. While biodiversity modeling may sound simple, count organisms and mark their location, there is a lot more to it than that!

Guest

Hager Radi: Hager (ha-ga-r) is a Senior Applied Research Scientist at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. She has MSc in Computing Science from University of Alberta, focused on Reinforcement learning, as part of IRL Lab , also at RLAI lab and Amii. Her research expertise spans: reinforcement learning, computer vision, LLMs and Agentic AI and Remote sensing. More broadly, she is passionate about applied research with a strong focus on advancing AI for good.