- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Her seminar is open to all interested persons.
In her abstract she writes:
"The history of humankind is intimately connected to insects. Insect borne diseases kill a million people and destroy tens of billions of dollars' worth of crops annually. However, at the same time, beneficial insects pollinate the majority of crop species humans eat. Given the importance of insects in human affairs, it is somewhat surprising that computer science has not had a larger impact in entomology. We believe that recent advances in sensor technology/machine learning are beginning change this, and a new field of Computational Entomology will emerge."
"In this talk we will demonstrate that inexpensive sensors allow us to classify flying insects, down to the level of sex/species in most cases. This amazing computational ability opens host of new challenges and opportunities. We will discuss one for concreteness. Our problem is motivated by our collaboration with Microsoft Research, which allows us, for the first time to capture individually targeted insects. In brief, how can we task a (drone delivered) robotic insect trap to capture a maximally diverse sample of insects, with no human supervision?"
"We will conclude this talk with a quick overview of five other problems/opportunities that are ripe for exploration by entomological/computer science collaborations."
On her website, Zhu writes:
- My summer internship project is featured in an on-going Microsoft ad campaign
- Our paper "Matrix Profile II: Exploiting a Novel Algorithm and GPUs to break the one Hundred Million Barrier for Time Series Motifs and Joins!" was selected as one of the best paper award candidates at ICDM 2016
Zhu received two degrees from Shanghai Jiano Tong University, Shanghai China. She earned her bachelor's degree in microelectronics and her master's degree in integrated circuit engineering. At UC Riverside, her major advisor is Eamonn Keogh, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Coordinator of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminars is agricultural entomologist Christian Nansen, assistant professor. He may be reached at chrnansen@ucdavis.edu
