Emilio Luz-Ricca

I am a PhD student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge in the Conservation Science Group and the Energy and Environment Group. I am primarily supervised by Andrew Balmford, with co-supervision from Anil Madhavapeddy and Tom Swinfield. I am also part of the AI for Environmental Risks Centre for Doctoral Training, a researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits, and a member of Churchill College. My research focuses on the uses of predictive modeling for biodiversity conservation, with an emphasis on quantifying species-specific responses to human disturbance. I primarily use methods from machine learning, remote sensing, and optimization.

Previously, I received a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Data Science with a minor in Math from William & Mary and Master of Research (MRes) in Environmental Data Science from Cambridge.