Lauren E. Gillespie

#BlackLivesMatter | Postdoc @MIT_CSAIL | Incoming Assistant Professor @UMSEAS (2026) | Saving the plants of the planet one computer at a time | she / her / hers

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

I'm thrilled to finally announce that I'll be joining the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability starting in Fall of 2026 as an assistant professor specializing in Geospatial Data Sciences and Conservation + Restoration! 🟨🟦Go Blue! 🟦🟨

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

I’m at NeurIPS and giving a keynote at the @imageomics
workshop on Saturday! If you want to learn more about my new lab’s research be sure to drop by, and don’t forget to stick around for all the great talks and posters throughout the workshop!
https://t.co/5df1CCphmM

[Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery]

How do we do more with biodiversity data we've already collected?

I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a @TEDCountdown and @BezosEarthFund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live!

@TEDTalks @inaturalist #AIforConservation

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

And if you yourself are passionate about AI for conservation and sustainability and are interested in pursuing a PhD, I'd love to learn more about you and your interests! You can use this google form (https://t.co/lS8GmtggKI) to share a little more about yourself🌱

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

I'm thrilled to finally announce that I'll be joining the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability starting in Fall of 2026 as an assistant professor specializing in Geospatial Data Sciences and Conservation + Restoration! 🟨🟦Go Blue! 🟦🟨

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

As I start to build out my new lab at U-M I'll also be recruiting PhD students and postdocs this year! If you know of any students interested in the intersection of AI and sustainability, please have them check out the details on my lab's new homepage https://t.co/2veTDC3gWI

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

Excited to be giving a keynote at the NeurIPS version of the Imageomics workshop! 🎉It's also not too late to submit your own work to the workshop! (Aug. 22nd deadline, details below 👇)

[Jianyang Gu @vimar_gu]

Announcing the @NeurIPSConf 2025 workshop on Imageomics:
Discovering Biological Knowledge from Images Using AI!

The workshop focuses on the interdisciplinary field between machine learning and biological science. We look forward to seeing you in San Diego!

#NeurIPS2025

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

🎉🎉🎉

[Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan @UMichCSE]

We’re happy to announce that @GabrielPoesia will be joining our faculty as an assistant professor in Fall 2026. Welcome to CSE!

▶️Learn more about Gabriel here: https://t.co/WD0dcIDWVR
#UMichCSE #GoBlue

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

Be sure to stop by and check out our poster at the afternoon session of the Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning workshop at NeurIPS!! With the amazing @elenaXresearch 🤗

[Moi Expósito-Alonso (#MOILAB) @MExpositoAlonso]

Very excited to see our @PNASNews paper led by @leg2015 on deep learning maps of plant species using remote sensing highlighted in Berkeley News!
https://t.co/5px7FAg9ic

@UCBerkeley @Cal #MOILAB

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

@anushkmittal Haha thanks!!

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

One ocean, two planes, three trains, and 35 stickers later (long story), my first ECCV poster is finally on the books!

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

Hey #ECCV24 be sure to stop by tomorrow’s morning poster session to check out CRISP, our new multimodal contrastive pretraining strategy for natural world imagery task that the amazing @andyvhuynh and I have been working on over the past year!

https://t.co/U0FkrkDMON

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

@MarissaInMadrid she also finally has Twitter access 🤪

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

@anushkmittal To hold up the poster haha

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

Hey #ECCV24 be sure to stop by tomorrow’s morning poster session to check out CRISP, our new multimodal contrastive pretraining strategy for natural world imagery task that the amazing @andyvhuynh and I have been working on over the past year!

https://t.co/U0FkrkDMON

[Moi Expósito-Alonso (#MOILAB) @MExpositoAlonso]

Read our latest paper @PNASNews!
https://t.co/uN37uAROyI

The first #DeepLearning project in our lab led by Lauren Gillespie @leg2015 who directly uses remote sensing images to map 2000 plant species

We named it #deepbiosphere!

@UCBerkeley @HHMINEWS @Stanford @CarnegieScience

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

And stay tuned for future updates on how @dneves_ecology and I are working on tools for this here in Brazil! 🌱

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

I’m thrilled to announce that my paper with @MExpositoAlonso and @MeganRRuffley tracking rapid plant species changes with deep learning is live at PNAS!
https://t.co/tZpZ3gu5FI

[Lauren E. Gillespie @leg2015]

New automated biodiversity monitoring tools powered by deep learning and large-scale ecological datasets like Deepbiosphere will prove crucial to monitoring progress towards the United Nations’ Global Biodiversity Framework’s targets by 2030 worldwide