Ecology and environment

Publication

Towards Automated Petrography

Isai Daniel Chacon, Paola Ruiz Puentes, Jillian Pearse, Pablo Arbelaez

NeurIPS 2025 | October 2025

Publication

GhostNetZero: AI for Detecting Marine Ghost Nets

Zhongqi Miao, Gabriele Dederer, Mareen Lee, Emrah Birsin, Crayton Fenn, Kai Krutzke, Theodoros Stougiannis, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

September 2025

Publication

Energy Use of AI Inference: Efficiency Pathways and Test-Time Compute

Felipe Oviedo, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Esha Choukse, Allen Kim, Amy Luers, Melanie Nakagawa, Ricardo Bianchini, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

September 2025

Publication

AI-Driven Detection and Analysis of Handwriting on Seized Ivory: A Tool to Uncover Criminal Networks in the Illicit Wildlife Trade

Will Fein, Ryan J. Horwitz, John E. Brown III, Amit Misra, Felipe Oviedo, Kevin White, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Samuel K. Wasser

August 2025

Publication

Remote Sensing Reveals Adoption of Sustainable Rice Farming Practices Across Punjab, India

Ando Shah, Rajveer Singh, Akram Zaytar, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson, Negar Tafti, Stephen A. Wood, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

July 2025

Project

Publication

Closed-loop optimization using machine learning for the accelerated design of sustainable cements incorporating algal biomatter

Meng-Yen Lin, Kristen Severson, Paul Grandgeorge, Eleftheria Roumeli

Matter | July 2025

Publication

Mapping global floods with 10 years of satellite radar data

Amit Misra, Kevin White, Simone Fobi Nsutezo, William Straka III, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

Nature Communications | July 2025

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Introducing GIRAFFE—Generalized Image-based Re-Identification using AI for Fauna Feature Extraction

June 18, 2025 | Juan Lavista Ferres

We’re proud to announce the launch of GIRAFFE (Generalized Image-based Re-Identification using AI for Fauna Feature Extraction)—an open-source AI tool developed by Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, in partnership with the Wild Nature Institute, to…

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Publication

Expanding smallholder irrigation in central Kenya demonstrates the importance of protecting grassland landscapes

Gilles Quentin Hacheme, Stephen Andrew Wood, Renatus Magesa, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson, Elizah Peter, Elkanah Kipkoech, Bernice Sainepo

IOP Science – Environmental Research Letters | June 2025

Publication

GeoVision Labeler: Zero-Shot Geospatial Classification with Vision and Language Models

Gilles Quentin Hacheme, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson, Akram Zaytar, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

May 2025

Project

Project FarmVibes | Research for Industry

Bioacoustics: Leveraging AI to process audio recordings of diverse species

Geospatial Machine Learning

Advance sustainability initiative | AI For Good Lab

Towards Automated Petrography

GhostNetZero: AI for Detecting Marine Ghost Nets

Energy Use of AI Inference: Efficiency Pathways and Test-Time Compute

AI-Driven Detection and Analysis of Handwriting on Seized Ivory: A Tool to Uncover Criminal Networks in the Illicit Wildlife Trade

Remote Sensing Reveals Adoption of Sustainable Rice Farming Practices Across Punjab, India

Closed-loop optimization using machine learning for the accelerated design of sustainable cements incorporating algal biomatter

Mapping global floods with 10 years of satellite radar data

Introducing GIRAFFE—Generalized Image-based Re-Identification using AI for Fauna Feature Extraction

Expanding smallholder irrigation in central Kenya demonstrates the importance of protecting grassland landscapes

GeoVision Labeler: Zero-Shot Geospatial Classification with Vision and Language Models

Ecology and environment

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