Viktor Domazetoski
I am a PhD student within the Biological Sciences (QUEX) programme, a joint degree in collaboration with the University of Queensland, focusing on responsible AI for biodiversity monitoring. I have an interdisciplinary background both in Ecosystem Analysis and Modelling (University of Göttingen), and Data Science (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje). Throughout the past years I have worked on the application of statistical methodologies and AI across environmental fields such as plant macroecology, functional ecology and coral reef monitoring, as well as physics, biomedicine and neuroscience.
My research centres around the role of responsible AI in biodiversity monitoring. AI holds great promise, but also can cause harms if not developed responsibly. Camera trap AI is nascent and often highly inaccurate, yet is being deployed widely today. This is concerning given that we currently have no understanding of how accurate these systems need to be, or the consequences if they are not. Bad AI systems could miss species declines, resulting in bad conservation outcomes and misallocation of funds. My PhD will develop the first research into responsible AI for biodiversity monitoring, allowing the full potential of this technology to be harnessed.