About Us

Our interdisciplinary team has a range of expertise including remote sensing, computational ecology, forest ecology, data science and machine learning.


Alina Zare

Alina Zare

Associate Professor

Alina Zare teaches and conducts research in the area of pattern recognition and machine learning at the University of Florida.

Dylan Stewart

Dylan Stewart

Dylan is a PhD student at the University of Florida supervised by Dr. Alina Zare interested in Machine Learning and Computer Vision.


Stephanie Bohlman

Stephanie Bohlman

Associate Professor

Stephanie Bohlman is an associate professor in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida. She teaches and conducts research on forest ecology and remote sensing.

Sarah Graves

Sarah Graves

Sarah Graves manages a Master of Science Program in environmental remote sensing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her Ph.D. was advised by Stephanie Bohlman.


Ethan White

Ethan White

Associate Professor

Ethn White is an Associate Professor, Dept. Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, University of Florida. He is a cofounder of the WEecology lab, and is interested in data-intensive questions in ecology, using large ecological datasets, advanced statistical/machine learning methods, and theoretical modeling to understand ecological patterns.

Sergio Marconi

Sergio Marconi

Sergio Marconi is currently a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Ecology at University of Florida. He is interesting in predicting functional patterns of vegetation, and is advised by Dr White.


Ben Weinstein

Ben Weinstein

Ben Weinstein is a Postdoc at the WEecology lab. Ben works on converting remote sensing data into ecological information and integrating this information into large scale models.

Glenda Yenni

Glenda Yenni

Project Manager

Glenda manages large collaborative projects for the WEecology lab.


Daisy Zhe Wang

Daisy Zhe Wang

Associate Professor

Daisy Zhe Wang is an Associate Professor in the CISE department at the University of Florida, and directs the Data Science Research lab.

Aditya Singh

Aditya Singh

Assistant Professor

Aditya Singh is an assistant professor of Remote Sensing in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Florida.


Hyun Choi

Hyun Choi

Hyun Choi is a computer science undergraduate student at the Data Science Research Lab at University of Florida.

Ira Harmon

Ira Harmon

Ira Harmon is a PhD student in computer science, interested in species classification on remote sensing data.