About: Tilo Burghardt is a Professor of Computer Vision and Animal Biometrics at the University of Bristol, UK. His career has contributed to establishing Animal Biometrics as a new cross-discipline at the interface between the computational and biological sciences. He was one of the first researchers to monitor individual animals in their natural habitat via automated real-time computer vision methods in the early 2000s. His scientific work over more than 20 years has contributed computational AI solutions applicable to ecology, conservation, imageomics, taxonomics, healthcare, animal husbandry, and smart ethical farming.  Tilo's enthusiasm for computer science and computer vision is reflected in his dedication to teaching the subject. He has received the University of Bristol 'Award for Education' for his educational contributions to the Engineering Faculty. His scientific papers are listed on his Homepage and on Google Scholar. 

Short Biography: Tilo 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. After post-doctoral research at the School of Physics, he was awarded a Fellowship of the Research Councils UK and tenure as a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Associate Professor. He is now a Full Professor of Computer Vision and Animal Biometrics at the School of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK.

Further Information: Tilo leads teaching and learning in computer science as School Education Director at the School of Computer Science, University of Bristol. His team's research has been published widely across multiple scientific communities and has received best paper award nominations (incl CVPR2025) internationally. Tilo is Associate Editor of IET Computer Vision and main organising academic of the International Workshop Series on Camera Traps, AI and Ecology (CamTrapAI). He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), a member of ELLIS, and member of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes). He has contributed to the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) as chair of the 24th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). Further information can be found in his LinkedIn Profile.