Dr. Grant Humphries joined HiDef in early 2018 and is a marine ornithologist with a background in machine learning, non-parametric statistics and spatial ecology. Grant has been working with seabirds since 2006, but has experience in a number of fields focusing on ways of implementing cutting edge machine learning techniques to complex ecological datasets. He is the lead editor of a book on machine learning in Ecology that was published by Springer Nature in late 2018 and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on topics from arctic sea-ice dynamics to predicting discrete climate events using seabirds as indicators.
Grant is a skilled GIS analyst with over 15 years of experience with ArcMap, and a talented web programmer, using both the R and Python programming languages to create dynamic decision support tools that integrate complex modelling algorithms and output for stakeholder engagement.
