Bridging field ecology and computer vision.
I am a PhD student in the Grozinger Lab at Penn State, working at the intersection of pollinator ecology, plant-pollinator interactions, and AI-based insect biomonitoring. My research spans field experiments at Konza Prairie Biological Station, controlled greenhouse studies, and the leveraging, development and validation of computer vision tools for monitoring insect communities.
Within the NutNet global research network, I investigate how nutrient enrichment and altered disturbance regimes reshape grassland plant communities and the pollinators they support. In parallel, I help design and validate automated monitoring systems that lower the labor cost of measuring biodiversity at ecologically meaningful scales.
I am affiliated with Penn State's Center for Pollinator Research and the INSECT NET program, and I collaborate with researchers at Konza on long-term experiments in tallgrass prairie ecology.
