Sara Beery
Assistant Professor In EECS at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolSara Beery is an assistant professor in MIT EECS and CSAIL with nine years of experience applying computer vision and machine learning to biodiversity and environmental monitoring. Her career bridges top-tier academic research (PhD in Computational Vision from Caltech) and industry practice through internships and research roles at Google, Microsoft AI for Earth, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. She has a strong track record building vision-based systems for conservation—starting from student camera-trap projects to scalable research deployed for wildlife monitoring. Based in Pasadena, she combines rigorous technical expertise in image processing with practical deployment experience and a commitment to interdisciplinary impact. Notably, her background includes hands-on automation and hardware work at John Deere, reflecting a rare blend of field-focused engineering and theoretical depth. She is recognized for mentoring and leadership roles across academia and professional societies, reflecting deep engagement with the next generation of engineers.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Computer Engineering Study Abroad - Lorraine, France, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 4.0, Electrical and Computer Engineering Study Abroad - Lorraine, France, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, 3.995, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, 3.995 at Seattle UniversityCalifornia Institute of Technology
English, French
Github Skills (18)
detectors10
classifiers10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
computer-vision10
pytorch9
machine-learning9
python8
generalization5
datasets5
annotations5
javascript3
testing3
benchmark1
rgb1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
visipedia/iwildcam_comp
Feb 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:152 commits, 7 PRs, 152 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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google/auto-arborist
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 8 months
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