Ian Ingram
Associate Director, Population Sustainability
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Ingram is a multidisciplinary roboticist and artist who leads the Conservation Technology Lab at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, now serving as Associate Director of Population Sustainability. With 11+ years of applied research experience and graduate training in ocean acoustics and ocean engineering from MIT, he builds robotic systems that probe the boundaries between machines, animals, and culture. His work spans marine robotics, industrial and bipedal platforms, and experimental robotic “actors” that have been exhibited internationally and used in public-facing projects like Robot 250. Ian combines academic teaching and residencies at institutions such as Carnegie Mellon, Harvey Mudd, and UC Irvine with hands-on conservation technology deployments. He is notable for translating deep technical expertise into creative interventions—teaching ravens about climate with robotic gestures and embedding artful inquiry into conservation science. Based in San Diego, he bridges rigorous engineering, ecological stewardship, and contemporary art to rethink what robots are for and where they belong.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Skowhegan School of Painting and SculptureMS, Ocean Acoustics, MS, Ocean Acoustics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Phillips Exeter AcademyMFA, Fine Art, MFA, Fine Art at Carnegie Mellon UniversityRygaards International School
Github Skills (15)
polar10
observation8
camera7
activity-recognition6
post-processing5
measurements5
machine-learning5
computer-vision5
benchmark4
logging4
python4
object-detection3
ctl3
responsive2
dashboard1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
iingram/website
Aug 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:108 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 6 years 1 month
conservationtechlab/scrubcam
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Code for Edge-AI-enabled field wildlife camera
Contributions:197 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 4 months
wildlife-cameracameracomputer-visionmachine-learningedge
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