People – The Kellner Lab

Principal Investigator

Jim Kellner

Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Email: james_r_kellner@brown.edu
Telephone: 401-863-5768
Research Interests: carbon accounting, machine learning, plant biology, remote sensing

Current Lab Members

Benedikt Imbach

Engineer, Aeroscout GmbH
Email: imbach@aeroscout.ch
Interests: Flight operations, aeronautical engineering

Ahya Rezaei

Research Interests: Avian vocalization, machine learning, remote sensing

Carlo Zgraggen

Engineer, Aeroscout GmbH
Interests: Flight control systems, aeronautical engineering, laser scanning

Dafeng Zhang

PhD candidate (Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology)
Research Interests: Forest structure, lidar remote sensing

Alumni

Loren Albert
Assistant Professor at Oregon State University (former postdoc)

Alexander Burdo
Undergraduate (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

John Burley
PhD in 2023

Kyle Cavanaugh
Associate Professor at UCLA (former postdoc)

KC Cushman
Liane Russel Distinguished Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (PhD in 2019)

Kealoha Kinney
Research Ecologist, Pacific Southwest Research Station Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Hilo, Hawaii (PhD in 2017)

Jessy Ma
Undergraduate (Computer Science)

Anna Odell
Undergraduate (Environmental Science)

Eugene Seo
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Applied Mathematics)

Milla Shin
Software Engineer (Amazon Web Services)

Carlos Silva
Head of Remote Sensing Science at Pachama (PhD in 2018)

Xi Yang
Associate Professor at the University of Virginia (former postdoc, co-advised)