César Herrera
Senior Research Fellow at SORTEE
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolCésar Herrera is a Senior Research Fellow and ecoinformatician with eight years’ experience developing software and hardware for coastal and marine monitoring. He combines a PhD in Marine Ecology with expertise in computer vision, statistics, and big-data workflows to boost data reliability, lower operating costs, and support decision-making under uncertainty. Based at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, he moves research into operational tools—automating biodiversity and ecosystem-function assessments from complex sensor streams. His work blends field-savvy ecological thinking with hands-on data science and device integration, and he contributes to interdisciplinary communities like SORTEE. An unusual strength is translating experimental hardware and novel analytics into scalable monitoring systems that are ready for real-world deployment.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciado en Biología Ecology Evolution Systematics and Population Biology, Licenciado en Biología Ecology Evolution Systematics and Population Biology at Universidad Simón BolívarDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Marine Ecology Ecoinformatics Computer Vision and Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Marine Ecology Ecoinformatics Computer Vision and Statistics at James Cook University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (42)
spying10
ecology10
toolbox9
computer-vision9
active-learning8
data-cleaning8
biology8
visualization7
data-quality7
python7
object-detection7
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
datasets6
pandas6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CexyNature/Crabspy
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
An heuristic toolbox for spying* intertidal crabs in their environment; built in Python. In continuous development. * Furtively collect information about crabs biology and ecology
Contributions:1 release, 305 commits, 62 pushes in 2 years
heuristiccollectpythontoolboxbiology
CexyNature/bioturbation_web
Jul 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:12 PRs, 57 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
ocypodidaebiologybenthic-macroinvertebratescrabsbioturbation
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