Jason Holmberg

As a scientific software developer and leader of the Wild Me lab (wildme.org) of Conservation X Labs, Jason has logged thousands of hours since 2002 developing the Wildbook open source software platform (https://github.com/wildmeorg), which is used by 2000+ wildlife biologists to track 233,000+ individual animals (from gray whales to leopards) across 1.2M+ sightings and 11M+ images. As an individual and an engineering leader, Jason builds software within an ecosystem of related scientific software and platforms (R, Program Mark, GBIF.org) and integrates a multi-modal machine learning pipeline to find animals in imagery and individually identify them based on their natural patterning. Wildbook directly supports diverse research into population biology, wildlife genomics, social ecology, computer vision, and more. Wildbook-based projects have been able to manage a large amount of wildlife data, promote collaboration across borders and data sets, and identify individual animals from multiple photos taken by different researchers many years apart. A list of our Wildbook-based scientific projects can be found at: https://www.wildme.org/platforms.html.

Through dedicated engagement and collaboration with the global wildlife community that we support through Wildbook and Scout, Jason's team is conducting novel AI experiments - such as building autonomous intelligent agents for wildlife research - and deploying large-scale, multispecies AI models in support of marine and terrestrial conservation efforts.