Ali Swanson
Director, Nature Tech & Innovation
Oxford, England, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Swanson is a conservation technologist and ecologist with 18 years of international experience translating wildlife behavior into scalable conservation solutions. As Director of Nature Tech & Innovation at Conservation International, he leads efforts to apply AI, drones, acoustic sensors and other technologies to accelerate conservation impact. He pioneered large-scale camera-trap studies in the Serengeti and co-created SnapshotSerengeti, an early crowdsourced platform that helped prove volunteer classifications could achieve expert-level accuracy and directly informed modern species-recognition computer vision models. His policy experience includes an AAAS fellowship and roles at the U.S. Department of State shaping science-based foreign policy on wildlife trafficking and zoonotic risks. Based between Oxford and the U.S., he bridges field ecology, citizen science, and institutional policy to move novel tools from pilot to global adoption. An underappreciated strength is his track record of building interdisciplinary teams that turn overwhelming ecological data volumes into actionable conservation intelligence.
11 years of coding experience
University of Minnesota Twin CitiesBachelor’s Degree, Biology, Bachelor’s Degree, Biology at University of Virginia
English, Swahili
Github Skills (12)
utility10
frontend9
visualization8
docker7
nodejs6
api6
ruby6
rest-api2
transcription1
deep-learning1
sequence1
android1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zooniverse/wildcam-gorongosa
Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:70 commits, 25 PRs, 29 pushes in 7 months
aliburchard/ProjectBuilderDocumentation
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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