Outreach

We share our work through invited talks, courses, workshops, and community-centered teaching.

Browse: Talks Teaching & Community Building

37 activities listed.


Talk 18 Feb 2026

Seeing Above and Below the Canopy: Improving Occupancy Models with Deep Multi-modal Habitat Representations

Speaker: Timm Haucke

Host: International Conservation Technology Conference

Talk 06 Feb 2026

Opportunities and Challenges for Mapping Fine-Scale Vegetation Change Across California with Deep Learning

Speaker: Lauren Gillespie

Host: California Native Plant Society 2026 Conference

Teaching & Community Building Feb 2026

6.S891/6.S893/12.S992 AI for Climate Action

Instructor(s): Sara Beery

Institution: MIT

Teaching & Community Building Jan 2026

Workshop on Computer Vision Methods for Ecology

Instructor(s): Sara Beery, Shir Bar

Institution: CV4Ecology

Teaching & Community Building Jan 2026

Co-Instructing 1.091: Traveling Research Environmental Experiences

Instructor(s): Rupa Kurinchi-Vendhan

Institution: MIT

Talk 02 Dec 2025

Leverage the growing wave of ecological data using AI image recognition

Speaker: Timm Haucke

Host: WiNoDa Knowledge Lab

Talk 24 Sep 2025

How AI is unearthing hidden scientific knowledge

Speaker: Sara Beery

Host: TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund

Talk 16 Sep 2025

PRISM: Expert-in-the-Loop Image Restoration for Complex Real-World Distortions

Speaker: Rupa Kurinchi-Vendhan

Host: 7th NOAA Workshop on Generative AI Applications in Environmental Sciences

Teaching & Community Building Sep 2025

Co-Instructing 6.7960 - Deep Learning

Instructor(s): Sara Beery

Institution: MIT

Talk 16 Jul 2025

Mapping Coral Reefs: Monitoring Shallow Water Reefs at Scale with Aerial Drones

Speaker: Rupa Kurinchi-Vendhan

Host: Break Through Tech AI

Teaching & Community Building May 2025

2025 AI upskilling workshop for former US/state environmental scientists

Instructor(s): Sara Beery, Justin Kay

Institution: CV4Ecology

Talk 22 Apr 2025

Mapping Coral Reefs: Monitoring Shallow Water Reefs at Scale with Aerial Drones

Speaker: Rupa Kurinchi-Vendhan

Host: MIT Ocean Engineering Seminar

Talk 02 Apr 2025

Data Visualization, Data Splitting, and Avoiding Data Poisoning

Speaker: Julia Chae

Host: CV4Ecology Workshop

Talk 05 Mar 2025

Personalized Representation from Personalized Generation

Speaker: Shobhita Sundaram, Julia Chae

Host: Cohere For AI

Talk 03 Mar 2025

Computer vision and biodiversity monitoring

Speaker: Timm Haucke, Sara Beery

Host: Ecological Forecasting Initiative

Teaching & Community Building Feb 2025

6.S954 Computer Vision and Planetary Health

Instructor(s): Sara Beery, Justin Kay

Institution: MIT

Teaching & Community Building Jan 2025

Workshop on Computer Vision Methods for Ecology

Instructor(s): Sara Beery, Julia Chae

Institution: CV4Ecology

Teaching & Community Building Dec 2024

Co-Instructing Deep Learning for Ecology

Instructor(s): Sara Beery

Institution: African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Teaching & Community Building Sep 2024

Co-Instructing 6.7960 - Deep Learning

Instructor(s): Sara Beery

Institution: MIT

Teaching & Community Building Jul 2024

African Computer Vision Summer School (ACVSS)

Instructor(s): Sara Beery

Institution: Microsoft Research Institute (MARI)

Talk 10 Jun 2024

Enabling Novel Scientific Discovery With Multimodal AI

Speaker: Sara Beery

Host: MIT Solve

Teaching & Community Building Feb 2024

Co-Instructing 6.8300/6.8301: Advances in Computer Vision

Instructor(s): Sara Beery

Institution: MIT

Talk 31 Jan 2024

Computing for Sustainability via Sustainable Computing

Speaker: Sara Beery

Host: MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Teaching & Community Building Jan 2024

Imageomics Course

Instructor(s): Sara Beery

Institution: The Ohio State University

Teaching & Community Building Jan 2024

Co-Instructing 1.091: Traveling Research Environmental Experiences

Instructor(s): Timm Haucke

Institution: MIT

Talk 18 Dec 2023

Generative AI Ethics and Society

Speaker: Sara Beery

Host: MIT

Talk 15 Dec 2023

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in the Real World

Speaker: Justin Kay

Host: Computational Sustainability Workshop at NeurIPS

Talk 23 Oct 2023

Generalization vs. Specialization in Computer Vision for Ecology

Speaker: Sara Beery

Host: Harvard CRCS Seminar Series

Talk 04 Oct 2023

Fair Evaluation of AI Systems

Speaker: Justin Kay

Host: Seafood and Fisheries Emerging Technologies (SAFET)

Teaching & Community Building Sep 2023

Co-Instructing 6.S898 - Deep Learning

Instructor(s): Sara Beery

Institution: MIT

Talk 29 Aug 2023

Efficient Models and Speed vs. Accuracy

Speaker: Justin Kay

Host: CV4Ecology Summer Workshop

Talk 24 Aug 2023

What's next? Rules of Thumb to Improve ML Results

Speaker: Justin Kay

Host: CV4Ecology Summer Workshop

Teaching & Community Building Jan 2023

Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) Stellenbosch

Teaching & Community Building Jan 2023

Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS)

Instructor(s): Sara Beery

Institution: University of Stellenbosch

Talk 01 Dec 2022

Auto Arborist: Towards Mapping Urban Forests Across North America

Speaker: Sara Beery

Host: RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Talk 12 Oct 2022

Computer Vision for Global-Scale Biodiversity Monitoring

Speaker: Sara Beery

Host: African Academy of Sciences