Dan Stowell

Dan Stowell is Associate Professor of AI & Biodiversity, jointly appointed at Tilburg University and Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NL). For more than a decade he has been an international leader of research on computational bioacoustics using machine learning and signal processing. He leads the EU-funded “Bioacoustic AI” Doctoral Network, and he is co-investigator in multiple EU Horizon-funded projects, bringing bioacoustic machine learning to meet the world's need for biodiversity monitoring.

Stowell is a co-founder of the data challenge "detection and classification of sound scenes and events (DCASE)", now an annual IEEE workshop and challenge, and is an elected member of the International Bioacoustics Council (IBAC) Executive Committee, and an Associate Editor at PLOS Computational Biology and PeerJ Computer Science. He is cofounder and CTO of Warblr Ltd (UK), a phone app that automatically recognises bird sounds - the app has received awards and copious press coverage, and has tens of thousands of regular users around the UK. In the Netherlands he is involved in many funded projects to bring AI-powered biodiversity monitoring to fruition.