EDUCATION

PhD, University of Northern British Columbia Sep.2021 - Apr.2026
Supervisor: Ken A. Otter
Thesis: From Recordings to Ecology: Turning Bird Sounds into Ecological Insights

MSc, University of British Columbia Sep.2017 - Nov.2019
Supervisor: Bianca Eskelson
Thesis: Innovative and Conventional Modelling for Avian Acoustic and Fire Severity Analyses

Batchelor, National Taiwan University Sep.2012 - Jun.2017
Double major: School of Forestry and Resource Conservation & Department of Physics
Supervisor: Tzeng-Yih Lam, and Shi-Wei Chu


PUBLICATION

JOURNAL ARTICLE

OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE PACKAGE

POPULAR SCIENCE ARTICLE

Traditional Mandarin
English

ACADEMIC CONFERENCE TALK/POSTER

★ conference award received

2026

The Wildlife Society Conference - Alberta Chapter ★ Banff, Canada
Passive acoustic monitoring in avian ecology (Poster) Feb.2026

2025

SCO-SOC Annual Meeting (meeting note) Saskatoon, Canada
Logo & merchandize designer, art booth, BirdNET workshop organizer, invited seminar speaker Aug.2025

Ecological Data Science Summit (meeting note) ★ Santa Barbara, USA
Invited by conference organizer for discussion of current AI use in ecology Feb.2025

2024

Posit::conf (meeting note) ★ Seattle, USA
Selected as one of the 40 opportunity scholars, early career software developer Aug.2024

AFO SCO-SOC WOS Joint Conference (meeting note) ★ Peoria, USA
Evaluation and application of BirdNET: identification of bird species by their sounds (Oral) Aug.2024

International Ecoacoustic Congress (meeting note) Madrid, Spain
Setting BirdNET confidence thresholds: Species-specific vs. universal approaches (Oral) Jul.2024

Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology Taipei, Taiwan
Monitoring avian biodiversity across wide spatiotemporal scale using passive acoustic monitoring (Oral) Feb.2024

2023

AOS-SCO Joint Conference (meeting note) London, Canada
Large scale biodiversity assessment with bird sound (Poster) Aug.2023

BC/Canada TWS Joint Conference (meeting note) ★ Victoria, Canada
Passive acoustic as a tool to monitor individual Barred Owls (Oral) Mar.2023

UNBC Research Week ★ Prince George, Canada
Passive acoustic as a tool to monitor individual Barred Owls (Oral) Feb.2023

2022

International Ornithological Congress Virtual
Modelling avian altitudinal migration using citizen science data (Oral) Aug.2022

2021

AOS-SCO Joint Conference Virtual
seewave and tuneR: sound analysis in ornithology (Oral) Aug.2021

Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology ★ Tainan, Taiwan
Modelling avian annual cycle distribution in Taiwan using citizen science data (Oral) Feb.2021

2020

Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology Penghu, Taiwan
Automatic bird sound detection: ARU data analysis (Oral) Jan.2020

2019

Annual meeting of Ecological Society of America (meeting note) Louisville, USA
Relationships between successive forest fires: A case study in central interior BC, Canada (Poster) Aug.2019

2018

Ecology & Evolution Retreat Squamish, Canada
Automatic Bird Sound Detection: ARU data analysis (Oral) Oct.2018

International Ornithological Congress Vancouver, Canada
Automatic bird sound detection: Logistic regression based acoustic occupancy model (Oral) Aug.2018

**Annual Meeting of Soundscape Association * Taipei, Taiwan **
Automatic bird sound detection: Logistic regression based acoustic occupancy model (Poster) Jun.2018

2017

Focus On Microscopy Bordeaux, France
High spatio-temporal-resolution detection of chlorophyll fluorescence (Poster) Apr.2017

2016

International Workshop on Holography & Biomedical Molecular Imaging Yilan, Taiwan
High Spatio-Temporal-Resolution Detection of Chlorophyll Fluorescence from a Single Chloroplast with Confocal Imaging Fluorometer (Poster) Nov.2016

Annual meeting of Taiwan Physics Society Kao-Hsiung, Taiwan
Detect Temporal Dynamics of Chlorophyll Fluorescence with Confocal Microscopy (Poster) Jan.2016

2015

International Forestry Students’ Symposium Manila, Philippines
Chlorophyll fluorescence: A powerful tool for photobiology research (Oral) Aug.2015


RECOGNITION

RESEARCH GRANT

Wildlife Acoustics Grant Program Wildlife Acoustics
Acoustic monitoring for migratory birds in Lithuania May.2026

Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) Grant R Consortium
birdnetTools2.0: Linking BirdNET outputs to occupancy modelling in R Dec.2025

Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements NSERC
Developing an R package for BirdNET, collaborating with the them in Chemnitz, Germany June.2025

Early Career Grant National Geographic
Leading a fieldwork in Lithuania for avian acoustic monitoring May.2025

rOpenSci Championship Program rOpenSci
Outstanding proposal for R package development May.2024

Siberian Tundra Arctic Research Grant TEEDF
Selected researcher for Arctic research project Apr.2017

SCHOLARSHIP and FELLOWSHIP

Dr. Joselito (Lito) Arocena Memorial Graduate Prize UNBC
Awarded to UNBC NRES graduates May.2026

Bert Brink Scholarship BC Nature
Awarded to one graduate student working on conservation research in BC Aug.2025

NBCGSS Legacy Scholarship UNBC
For graduate student with contributions to the graduate program Jun.2024

Hugh Hamilton Memorial Scholarship Nature Vancouver
For graduate student with outstanding academic & involvement with Nature Science May.2024

Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctorial (CGS-D) NSERC
Rewarding and retaining high-calibre doctoral students at Canadian institutions Apr.2023

Susan Stevenson Memorial Award UNBC
Excellence academic performance Nov.2022

CUPE Local 3799 Annual Bursary UNBC
Excellence academic performance Sep.2022

Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship MITACS
A long-term funding and internship for PhD students in Canada Jun.2022

Graduate Entrance Research Scholarship UNBC
High academic performance for new graduate student Jan.2021

Mary and David Macaree Fellowship UBC
Conducting research in Forestry Sep.2019

VanDusen Graduate Fellowship in Forestry UBC
Faculty of Forestry student in forest resource ecosystems Feb.2019

Hugh Robert Duncan Chisholm Scholarship in Forestry UBC
Conducting research in Forestry Nov.2018

Werner and Hildegard HESSE Fellowship in Ornithology UBC
Conducting research in Ornithology Oct.2018

Pei-Huang Tung and Tan-Wen Tung Graduate Fellowship UBC
Taiwanese students pursuing higher education in Canada Oct.2018

Mary and David Macaree Fellowship UBC
Students in Faculty of Forestry studying forest resource ecosystems Sep.2018

BA Blackwell & Associates Scholarship in Fire Science BA Blackwell & Associates
Conducting research about forest fire ecology Sep.2018

Soundscape and Sound Research Scholarship SAT
Soundscape or sound associated research Aug.2018

Faculty of Forestry Strategic Recruitment Fellowships UBC
Top 20% ranked student Sep.2017

College Student Research Scholarship MOST
Excellent research proposal Jun.2016

AWARD

Knowledge Mobilization Award UNBC
Graduate students who actively bridge the knowledge gap between academic and public audience May.2026

SCO-SOC Taverner Award SCO-SOC
Awarded for outstanding ornithological research in Canada Apr.2025

Student Presentation Award SCO-SOC
Best oral presentation in the annual conference in Peoria, Illinois Aug.2024

Best Student Presentation Award BC & CAN TWS
Best student oral presentation in The Wildlife Society conference Mar.2023

3 Minute Thesis Award UNBC
1st place & people’s choice of UNBC 3MT competition Feb.2023

Teaching Excellence Award UNBC
Outstanding teaching performance as a teaching assistant Sep.2022

Outstanding Oral Presentation Award CABE
Outstanding oral presentations in Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology Feb.2021

Master of Data Science TA Award UBC
Best TAs in Master of Data Science program of the academic year Jun.2019

3 Minute Thesis Award UBC
First place of 3MT competition in UBC Faculty of Forestry Feb.2019

College Student Research Creativity Award MOST
Top 5% ranked research report Aug.2017

Outstanding Poster and Presentation Award NTU
Ranked 1, out of 14 groups, in physics department poster competition Apr.2016

President Award NTU
Top 5% ranked student in the semester Jan.2016


WORK EXPERIENCE

INFOGRAPIC DESIGNER

I take design commissions for scientific visual design, focusing on wildlife conservation. See my portfolio.

FIELD RECORDIST

I have contributed recordings of around 300 bird species worldwide as a recordist for Xeno-Canto (profile), and have been involved in a range of nature sound-related art and science projects. Full list of collaborations can be found here.

DATA ANALYST

R PACKAGE DEVELOPER

birdnetTools Jan.2025 - July.2025
main developer, maintainer

bbsTaiwan Oct.2023 - Nov.2024
main developer, maintainer

R SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT

Birds Canada Sep.2024 - present
Process field collected ARU data through BirdNET

Endemic Species Research Institute Apr.2020 - Jul.2021
Field bird survey & eBird citizen science data analysis

Birds Canada Feb.2020 - Mar.2020
Digitalize historical BC bird survey data

COURSE / CODING GROUP

Applied Analysis Hub (coordinator) UNBC
Instructor: Eduardo Martins, Heather Bryan 2021 fall - 2025 fall

NRES 776 Advanced Statistical Analyses for Natural Resource Sciences (co-instructor) UNBC
Co-instructor: Lisa Koetke 2023 fall

Data Wrangling (TA) UBC
Instructor: Tiffany Timbers, Tomas Beuzen 2019 fall

Descriptive Statistics and Probability for Data Science (TA) UBC
Instructor: Mike Gelbart (2018), Vincenzo Coia (2019) 2018 fall, 2019 fall

Regression I, Regression II (TA) UBC
Instructor: Gabriela Cohen Freue (I), Vincenzo Coia (II) 2019 spring, 2019 fall

Feature and Model Selection (TA) UBC
Instructor: Mark Schmidt, Varada Kolhatkar 2019 spring

Advanced Biometrics (TA) UBC
Instructor: Bianca Eskelson 2018 fall

WORKSHOP

Introduction to Git & Github UNBC
Host: Library Graduate Student Workshop Development Program Feb.2026

BirdNET workshop (co-lead with Jenn Foote) USask
Host: SCO-SOC annual conference Aug.2025

Qualitative Analysis using R UNBC
Host: Jennifer Wigglesworth Mar.2023

Introduction to Git and Github UNBC
Host: Applied Analysis Hub Nov.2022

Data Wrangling with R UNBC
Host: Applied Analysis Hub Mar.2022

Data Wrangling with R (4 sessions) Endemic Species Research Institute
Host: Jerome Ko May.2021 – Jul.2021

Recording Techniques for Breeding Birds Survey (6 sessions) Endemic Species Research Institute
Host: Luna Fan Dec.2020 – Mar.2021

Automatic bird sound detection: ARU data analysis Canadian Wildlife Service
Host: Kathy Martin Oct.2018

Statistical Analysis in Ecology (5 sessions) UBC
Host: Trevor Gareth Jones Jan.2018 – Apr.2018