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Penn students use AI to track whales and build population models

Undergraduates Chinmay Govind used AI to locate whales with sound data, while Nihar Ballamudi built population models.

Nihar Ballamudi (second from left) and Chinmay Govind (far right) participated in the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program this summer, using machine learning models to monitor whale sounds, locations, and population sizes. Mason Liu (far left) and Justin Duong (second from right) are working on related projects about locating and censusing whales. / Penn Today

Chinmay Govind and Nihar Ballamudi, undergraduate students at the University of Pennsylvania, spent this summer applying artificial intelligence to track and census whale populations as part of the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program. 

Their research, supported by the Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships, used sound data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to locate whales north of Cape Cod Bay.

 

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