Santiago Balvanera
Associate Lecturer
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSantiago Balvanera is an Associate Lecturer and final-year PhD researcher at UCL with eight years’ experience applying machine learning to acoustic biodiversity monitoring. He develops novel methods to identify key acoustic signatures while tackling limited and biased data, bridging rigorous mathematical training (MSc Distinction in Mathematics, Licenciatura in Mathematics) with applied ecological genomics. His work spans academia and conservation practice—building national-scale acoustic monitoring infrastructure as a data scientist for Mexico’s biodiversity agency and now supporting research translation at the Bat Conservation Trust. Comfortable moving between theory and deployment, he combines expertise in probabilistic/ML methods with practical sensor and dataset design to make biodiversity signals accessible for conservation decision-making.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Master of Science (MSc) with Distinction, Matemáticas, Master of Science (MSc) with Distinction, Matemáticas at University of WarwickUniversity College London
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (30)
audio10
audiomoth9
machine-learning8
bounding8
acoustics8
edge-computing6
parser6
raspberry-pi5
metadata5
python5
simulation4
analyzer4
simulator4
api4
rest4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mbsantiago/whombat
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
Audio Annotation Tool for ML development
Contributions:21 releases, 13 reviews, 77 PRs in 1 year 6 months
annotationaudioaudio-annotationbioacousticsmachine-learning
romanbott/quaddiff
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:37 commits, 28 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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