Zhongqi Miao

Sr. Applied Research Scientist

Publications

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- Adaptive Acoustic Monitoring for Endangered Cook Inlet Beluga Whales in Complex Soundscapes
  
  Manolo Castellote, Rahul Dodhia, Daniela Ruiz Lopez, Zhongqi Miao, Pablo Arbelaez, Verena Gill, Lori Polasek, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Marine Mammal Science | June 2026
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Overhead Wildlife Locator (OWL): Benchmarking Weakly Supervised Learning for Aerial Wildlife Surveys
  
  Isai Daniel Chacon Silva, Zhongqi Miao, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Caleb Robinson, Rahul Dodhia, Lasha Otarashvili, Jason Holmberg, Kirk Larsen, Howard Frederick, Nathan J. Pamperin, Pablo Arbeláez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  June 2026
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Project SPARROW and the Future of Conservation Technology
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Carl Chalmers, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Zhongqi Miao, Andres Hernandez Celis, Federico Alves Torres, Isai Daniel Chacon Silva, Anthony Cintron Roman, Allen Kim, Meygha Machado, Luana Marotti, Amy Michaels, Daniela Ruiz Lopez, Catherine Romero, Rahul Dodhia, Inbal Becker-Reshef, Pablo Arbelaez
  
  June 2026
  
  Publication PDF Project
- A strongly annotated passive acoustic dataset for tropical bird monitoring
  
  Daniela Ruiz Lopez, Juan Sebastián Ulloa, Zhongqi Miao, Nicolás Betancourt, Maria Paula Toro-Gómez, Andres Hernandez Celis, Bruno Demuro, Eliana Barona-Cortés, Angela M. Mendoza-Henao, Andrés Sierra-Ricaurte, Sebastian Pérez-Peña, Rahul Dodhia, Pablo Arbeláez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  May 2026
  
  Publication PDF
- GhostNetZero: AI for Detecting Marine Ghost Nets
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Gabriele Dederer, Mareen Lee, Emrah Birsin, Crayton Fenn, Kai Krutzke, Theodoros Stougiannis, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication
- New frontiers in AI for biodiversity research and conservation with multimodal language models
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Yuanhan Zhang, Zalan Fabian, Andres Hernandez Celis, Sara Beery, Chunyuan Li, Ziwei Liu, Amrita Gupta, Md Nasir, Wanhua Li, Jason Holmberg, Meredith Palmer, Kaitlyn Gaynor, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Methods in Ecology and Evolution | August 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Multi-modal Language models in bioacoustics with zero-shot transfer: a case study
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Benjamin Elizalde, Soham Deshmukh, Justin Kitzes, Huaming Wang, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Scientific Reports | February 2025
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Pytorch-Wildlife: A Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Conservation
  
  Andres Hernandez Celis, Zhongqi Miao, Luisa Vargas Daza, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  May 2024
  
  Preprint
- Knowledge Augmented Instruction Tuning for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition
  
  Zalan Fabian, Zhongqi Miao, Chunyuan Li, Yuanhan Zhang, Ziwei Liu, Andres Hernandez, Pablo Arbelaez, Andrés Link, Andrés Montes-Rojas, Rafael Escucha, Laura Siabatto, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  NeurIPS 2023 | November 2023
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Multimodal Foundation Models for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition in Camera Trap Images
  
  Zalan Fabian, Zhongqi Miao, Chunyuan Li, Yuanhan Zhang, Ziwei Liu, Andrés Hernández, Andrés Montes-Rojas, Rafael Escucha, Laura Siabatto, Andrés Link, Pablo Arbeláez, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  November 2023
  
  Preprint Project
- Zero-Shot Transfer for Wildlife Bioacoustics Detection
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Benjamin Elizalde, Soham Deshmukh, Justin Kitzes, Huaming Wang, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  August 2023
  
  Preprint DOI Project Project

- Adaptive Acoustic Monitoring for Endangered Cook Inlet Beluga Whales in Complex Soundscapes
  
  Manolo Castellote, Rahul Dodhia, Daniela Ruiz Lopez, Zhongqi Miao, Pablo Arbelaez, Verena Gill, Lori Polasek, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Marine Mammal Science | June 2026
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Overhead Wildlife Locator (OWL): Benchmarking Weakly Supervised Learning for Aerial Wildlife Surveys
  
  Isai Daniel Chacon Silva, Zhongqi Miao, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Caleb Robinson, Rahul Dodhia, Lasha Otarashvili, Jason Holmberg, Kirk Larsen, Howard Frederick, Nathan J. Pamperin, Pablo Arbeláez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  June 2026
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Project SPARROW and the Future of Conservation Technology
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Carl Chalmers, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Zhongqi Miao, Andres Hernandez Celis, Federico Alves Torres, Isai Daniel Chacon Silva, Anthony Cintron Roman, Allen Kim, Meygha Machado, Luana Marotti, Amy Michaels, Daniela Ruiz Lopez, Catherine Romero, Rahul Dodhia, Inbal Becker-Reshef, Pablo Arbelaez
  
  June 2026
  
  Publication PDF Project
- A strongly annotated passive acoustic dataset for tropical bird monitoring
  
  Daniela Ruiz Lopez, Juan Sebastián Ulloa, Zhongqi Miao, Nicolás Betancourt, Maria Paula Toro-Gómez, Andres Hernandez Celis, Bruno Demuro, Eliana Barona-Cortés, Angela M. Mendoza-Henao, Andrés Sierra-Ricaurte, Sebastian Pérez-Peña, Rahul Dodhia, Pablo Arbeláez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  May 2026
  
  Publication PDF
- GhostNetZero: AI for Detecting Marine Ghost Nets
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Gabriele Dederer, Mareen Lee, Emrah Birsin, Crayton Fenn, Kai Krutzke, Theodoros Stougiannis, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication
- New frontiers in AI for biodiversity research and conservation with multimodal language models
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Yuanhan Zhang, Zalan Fabian, Andres Hernandez Celis, Sara Beery, Chunyuan Li, Ziwei Liu, Amrita Gupta, Md Nasir, Wanhua Li, Jason Holmberg, Meredith Palmer, Kaitlyn Gaynor, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Methods in Ecology and Evolution | August 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Multi-modal Language models in bioacoustics with zero-shot transfer: a case study
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Benjamin Elizalde, Soham Deshmukh, Justin Kitzes, Huaming Wang, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Scientific Reports | February 2025
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Pytorch-Wildlife: A Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Conservation
  
  Andres Hernandez Celis, Zhongqi Miao, Luisa Vargas Daza, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  May 2024
  
  Preprint
- Knowledge Augmented Instruction Tuning for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition
  
  Zalan Fabian, Zhongqi Miao, Chunyuan Li, Yuanhan Zhang, Ziwei Liu, Andres Hernandez, Pablo Arbelaez, Andrés Link, Andrés Montes-Rojas, Rafael Escucha, Laura Siabatto, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  NeurIPS 2023 | November 2023
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Multimodal Foundation Models for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition in Camera Trap Images
  
  Zalan Fabian, Zhongqi Miao, Chunyuan Li, Yuanhan Zhang, Ziwei Liu, Andrés Hernández, Andrés Montes-Rojas, Rafael Escucha, Laura Siabatto, Andrés Link, Pablo Arbeláez, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  November 2023
  
  Preprint Project
- Zero-Shot Transfer for Wildlife Bioacoustics Detection
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Benjamin Elizalde, Soham Deshmukh, Justin Kitzes, Huaming Wang, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  August 2023
  
  Preprint DOI Project Project
- GhostNetZero: AI for Detecting Marine Ghost Nets
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Gabriele Dederer, Mareen Lee, Emrah Birsin, Crayton Fenn, Kai Krutzke, Theodoros Stougiannis, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication
- New frontiers in AI for biodiversity research and conservation with multimodal language models
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Yuanhan Zhang, Zalan Fabian, Andres Hernandez Celis, Sara Beery, Chunyuan Li, Ziwei Liu, Amrita Gupta, Md Nasir, Wanhua Li, Jason Holmberg, Meredith Palmer, Kaitlyn Gaynor, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Methods in Ecology and Evolution | August 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Multi-modal Language models in bioacoustics with zero-shot transfer: a case study
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Benjamin Elizalde, Soham Deshmukh, Justin Kitzes, Huaming Wang, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Scientific Reports | February 2025
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Pytorch-Wildlife: A Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Conservation
  
  Andres Hernandez Celis, Zhongqi Miao, Luisa Vargas Daza, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  May 2024
  
  Preprint
- Knowledge Augmented Instruction Tuning for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition
  
  Zalan Fabian, Zhongqi Miao, Chunyuan Li, Yuanhan Zhang, Ziwei Liu, Andres Hernandez, Pablo Arbelaez, Andrés Link, Andrés Montes-Rojas, Rafael Escucha, Laura Siabatto, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  NeurIPS 2023 | November 2023
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Multimodal Foundation Models for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition in Camera Trap Images
  
  Zalan Fabian, Zhongqi Miao, Chunyuan Li, Yuanhan Zhang, Ziwei Liu, Andrés Hernández, Andrés Montes-Rojas, Rafael Escucha, Laura Siabatto, Andrés Link, Pablo Arbeláez, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  November 2023
  
  Preprint Project
- Zero-Shot Transfer for Wildlife Bioacoustics Detection
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Benjamin Elizalde, Soham Deshmukh, Justin Kitzes, Huaming Wang, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  August 2023
  
  Preprint DOI Project Project
- Pytorch-Wildlife: A Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Conservation
  
  Andres Hernandez Celis, Zhongqi Miao, Luisa Vargas Daza, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  May 2024
  
  Preprint
- Zero-Shot Transfer for Wildlife Bioacoustics Detection
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Benjamin Elizalde, Soham Deshmukh, Justin Kitzes, Huaming Wang, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  August 2023
  
  Preprint DOI Project Project

- Overhead Wildlife Locator (OWL): Benchmarking Weakly Supervised Learning for Aerial Wildlife Surveys
  
  Isai Daniel Chacon Silva, Zhongqi Miao, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Caleb Robinson, Rahul Dodhia, Lasha Otarashvili, Jason Holmberg, Kirk Larsen, Howard Frederick, Nathan J. Pamperin, Pablo Arbeláez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  June 2026
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Project SPARROW and the Future of Conservation Technology
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Carl Chalmers, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Zhongqi Miao, Andres Hernandez Celis, Federico Alves Torres, Isai Daniel Chacon Silva, Anthony Cintron Roman, Allen Kim, Meygha Machado, Luana Marotti, Amy Michaels, Daniela Ruiz Lopez, Catherine Romero, Rahul Dodhia, Inbal Becker-Reshef, Pablo Arbelaez
  
  June 2026
  
  Publication PDF Project
- A strongly annotated passive acoustic dataset for tropical bird monitoring
  
  Daniela Ruiz Lopez, Juan Sebastián Ulloa, Zhongqi Miao, Nicolás Betancourt, Maria Paula Toro-Gómez, Andres Hernandez Celis, Bruno Demuro, Eliana Barona-Cortés, Angela M. Mendoza-Henao, Andrés Sierra-Ricaurte, Sebastian Pérez-Peña, Rahul Dodhia, Pablo Arbeláez, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  May 2026
  
  Publication PDF
- GhostNetZero: AI for Detecting Marine Ghost Nets
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Gabriele Dederer, Mareen Lee, Emrah Birsin, Crayton Fenn, Kai Krutzke, Theodoros Stougiannis, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication
- Pytorch-Wildlife: A Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Conservation
  
  Andres Hernandez Celis, Zhongqi Miao, Luisa Vargas Daza, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  May 2024
  
  Preprint
- Multimodal Foundation Models for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition in Camera Trap Images
  
  Zalan Fabian, Zhongqi Miao, Chunyuan Li, Yuanhan Zhang, Ziwei Liu, Andrés Hernández, Andrés Montes-Rojas, Rafael Escucha, Laura Siabatto, Andrés Link, Pablo Arbeláez, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  November 2023
  
  Preprint Project
- Zero-Shot Transfer for Wildlife Bioacoustics Detection
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Benjamin Elizalde, Soham Deshmukh, Justin Kitzes, Huaming Wang, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  August 2023
  
  Preprint DOI Project Project
- Adaptive Acoustic Monitoring for Endangered Cook Inlet Beluga Whales in Complex Soundscapes
  
  Manolo Castellote, Rahul Dodhia, Daniela Ruiz Lopez, Zhongqi Miao, Pablo Arbelaez, Verena Gill, Lori Polasek, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Marine Mammal Science | June 2026
  
  Publication PDF Project
- New frontiers in AI for biodiversity research and conservation with multimodal language models
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Yuanhan Zhang, Zalan Fabian, Andres Hernandez Celis, Sara Beery, Chunyuan Li, Ziwei Liu, Amrita Gupta, Md Nasir, Wanhua Li, Jason Holmberg, Meredith Palmer, Kaitlyn Gaynor, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Methods in Ecology and Evolution | August 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Multi-modal Language models in bioacoustics with zero-shot transfer: a case study
  
  Zhongqi Miao, Benjamin Elizalde, Soham Deshmukh, Justin Kitzes, Huaming Wang, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Scientific Reports | February 2025
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Knowledge Augmented Instruction Tuning for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition
  
  Zalan Fabian, Zhongqi Miao, Chunyuan Li, Yuanhan Zhang, Ziwei Liu, Andres Hernandez, Pablo Arbelaez, Andrés Link, Andrés Montes-Rojas, Rafael Escucha, Laura Siabatto, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  NeurIPS 2023 | November 2023
  
  Publication PDF Project Project

Zhongqi Miao

Publications

Adaptive Acoustic Monitoring for Endangered Cook Inlet Beluga Whales in Complex Soundscapes

Overhead Wildlife Locator (OWL): Benchmarking Weakly Supervised Learning for Aerial Wildlife Surveys

Project SPARROW and the Future of Conservation Technology

A strongly annotated passive acoustic dataset for tropical bird monitoring

GhostNetZero: AI for Detecting Marine Ghost Nets

New frontiers in AI for biodiversity research and conservation with multimodal language models

Multi-modal Language models in bioacoustics with zero-shot transfer: a case study

Pytorch-Wildlife: A Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Conservation

Knowledge Augmented Instruction Tuning for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition

Multimodal Foundation Models for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition in Camera Trap Images

Zero-Shot Transfer for Wildlife Bioacoustics Detection

Adaptive Acoustic Monitoring for Endangered Cook Inlet Beluga Whales in Complex Soundscapes

Overhead Wildlife Locator (OWL): Benchmarking Weakly Supervised Learning for Aerial Wildlife Surveys

Project SPARROW and the Future of Conservation Technology

A strongly annotated passive acoustic dataset for tropical bird monitoring

GhostNetZero: AI for Detecting Marine Ghost Nets

New frontiers in AI for biodiversity research and conservation with multimodal language models

Multi-modal Language models in bioacoustics with zero-shot transfer: a case study

Pytorch-Wildlife: A Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Conservation

Knowledge Augmented Instruction Tuning for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition

Multimodal Foundation Models for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition in Camera Trap Images

Zero-Shot Transfer for Wildlife Bioacoustics Detection

GhostNetZero: AI for Detecting Marine Ghost Nets

New frontiers in AI for biodiversity research and conservation with multimodal language models

Multi-modal Language models in bioacoustics with zero-shot transfer: a case study

Pytorch-Wildlife: A Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Conservation

Knowledge Augmented Instruction Tuning for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition

Multimodal Foundation Models for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition in Camera Trap Images

Zero-Shot Transfer for Wildlife Bioacoustics Detection

Pytorch-Wildlife: A Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Conservation

Zero-Shot Transfer for Wildlife Bioacoustics Detection

Overhead Wildlife Locator (OWL): Benchmarking Weakly Supervised Learning for Aerial Wildlife Surveys

Project SPARROW and the Future of Conservation Technology

A strongly annotated passive acoustic dataset for tropical bird monitoring

GhostNetZero: AI for Detecting Marine Ghost Nets

Pytorch-Wildlife: A Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Conservation

Multimodal Foundation Models for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition in Camera Trap Images

Zero-Shot Transfer for Wildlife Bioacoustics Detection

Adaptive Acoustic Monitoring for Endangered Cook Inlet Beluga Whales in Complex Soundscapes

New frontiers in AI for biodiversity research and conservation with multimodal language models

Multi-modal Language models in bioacoustics with zero-shot transfer: a case study

Knowledge Augmented Instruction Tuning for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition