AI for Ecology and Ecosystem Preservation with Bryan Carstens - #449

Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 10:40 p.m.

b'Today we\\u2019re joined by Bryan Carstens, a professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology & Head of the Tetrapod Division in the Museum of Biological Diversity at The Ohio State University.\\n In our conversation with Bryan, who comes from a traditional biology background, we cover a ton of ground, including a foundational layer of understanding for the vast known unknowns in species and biodiversity, and how he came to apply machine learning to his lab\\u2019s research.\\n We explore a few of his lab\\u2019s projects, including applying ML to genetic data to understand the geographic and environmental structure of DNA, what factors keep machine learning from being used more frequently used in biology, and what\\u2019s next for his group.\\n The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/go/449.'