Rémi Mégret
Unit: University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Title: Professor, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Research Expertise
Dr. Mégret is a professor in Computer Science at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus (UPR-RP). His expertise is in computer vision and machine learning. During his tenures at Bordeaux Institute of Technology, France then at UPR, he has contributed to multiple national and international collaborative research projects with both academia and industrial partners. Applications include remote sensing using unmanned aerial vehicles and analysis of videos from wearable cameras. His recent projects focus on the application of Computer Vision and Deep Learning to Experimental Sciences, through collaborations with researchers from Material Sciences and from Biology. He is currently the PI of NSF project CyIndiBee, developing cyberinfrastructure for video monitoring of honeybees for the collection of large-scale datasets to study their individual behavior. Dr Mégret is also passionate about training the next generation of computer scientists and hope to grow the capacity for innovation in artificial intelligence and machine learning in Puerto Rico.
Areas of Expertise/Keywords
Computer Vision, Deep Learning, AI for science
