Sara Beery

Sara Beery

Dr. Sara Beery is the Homer A. Burnell Career Development Professor in the MIT Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making. She received her PhD in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech, where she was advised by Pietro Perona. Her research focuses on building computer vision methods that enable global-scale environmental and biodiversity monitoring across data modalities, tackling real-world challenges including geospatial and temporal domain shift, learning from imperfect data, fine-grained categories, and long-tailed distributions. Her work has been recognized with a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellowship, the Amori Doctoral Prize, an Amazon AI for Science Fellowship, a PIMCO Data Science Fellowship, and an NSF GRFP. She partners with industry, nongovernmental organizations, and government agencies to deploy her methods in the wild worldwide. She works to increase access to AI skills through interdisciplinary capacity building and education, and has founded the AI for Conservation slack community, serves as the Biodiversity Community Lead for Climate Change AI, founded and directs the Workshop on Computer Vision Methods for Ecology, and co-PIs the NSF/NSERC Global Center on AI and Biodiversity Change.

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