Scholar
Tilo Burghardt
Google Scholar ID: lqM244QAAAAJ
University of Bristol
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,777
H-index
24
i10-index
43
Publications
20
Co-authors
59
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- His interdisciplinary research has a particularly strong footprint in individual animal identification using AI and helped establish the field of animal biometrics at the interface between computer science and areas such as ecology, conservation, taxonomics, healthcare, animal husbandry, and smart ethical farming. He has received the University of Bristol 'Award for Education' for his educational contributions to the Engineering Faculty.
Research Experience
- After post-doctoral research at the School of Physics, he was awarded a Fellowship of the Research Councils UK and tenure as a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, and Professor of Computer Vision and Animal Biometrics at the School of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK. Tilo leads teaching and learning in computer science as School Education Director at the School of Computer Science, University of Bristol.
Education
- Graduated with Distinction in Media Computing (Bakk. Medien-Inf.) at Dresden University of Technology in Germany. Following a Hölderlin Scholarship award for international study, he received an MSc in Advanced Computing and later a PhD in Computer Vision from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.
Background
- Professor of Computer Vision and Animal Biometrics at the University of Bristol, researching AI for wildlife and farming. His career has brought computational, ecological, and robotics research communities together to facilitate novel and productive interdisciplinary teamwork in the new scientific fields of Animal Biometrics and Imageomics. He was one of the first researchers to monitor animals in their natural habitat via automated real-time computer vision methods in the early 2000s. Tilo's scientific work spans more than 20 years focusing on artificial intelligence and robotics that support biodiversity, sustainability, and animal welfare.
Miscellany
- Tilo's enthusiasm for computer science and computer vision is reflected in his dedication to teaching the subject.
