Jeff A. Tracey, PhD
Conservation AI | Quantitative Ecology
Research Associate, Conservation Biology Institute
I build machine learning tools for conservation — working across acoustic recordings, camera trap imagery, and UAV-based remote sensing, often under the messy, class-imbalanced conditions that real-world ecological datasets produce.
My background spans field ecology, ecological and statistical modeling, and computational science. I worked as an ecologist and biostatistician at USGS Western Ecological Research Center and as a computational scientist at USGS Advanced Research Computing.
Current focus: Deep generative models for acoustic data augmentation · geospatial AI for drone survey data · multi-modal species detection and behavioral analysis