Etienne Laliberté
Full Professor at Université de Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolEtienne Laliberté is a Full Professor at Université de Montréal, Canada Research Chair in Plant Functional Biodiversity, and leader of the Canadian Airborne Biodiversity Observatory (CABO) who bridges ecology, remote sensing, and applied AI. He co-founded Rubisco AI and led the team that won the XPRIZE Rainforest canopy tree mapping challenge, demonstrating an uncommon ability to translate academic research into prize-winning commercial solutions. His work develops high-resolution drone and computer-vision methods to monitor plant biodiversity and carbon, with a focus on rapid, scalable impact for conservation and climate mitigation. With a PhD in Forestry and additional training in geomatics, he combines field ecology expertise with technical mastery of spatial data and machine learning. Based in Montreal, he has built a decade-plus track record of academia-to-industry translation across continents, including research and faculty roles in Australia and Canada.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Forestry, Ph.D. Forestry at University of CanterburyMicroprogram in Geomatics Geomatics, Microprogram in Geomatics Geomatics at Université de SherbrookeM.Sc. Biological siences (Forest ecology), M.Sc. Biological siences (Forest ecology) at Université de MontréalBSc. Agr. Sc. Botanical sciences, BSc. Agr. Sc. Botanical sciences at McGill University - Macdonald Campus
Github Skills (19)
satellite-images8
r7
ecology7
spectral7
leaf7
segmentation7
spatial7
geopython6
raster6
datacube6
r-package6
geospatial5
artificial-intelligence4
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
elaliberte/specdiv
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
cran/FD
Aug 2014 - May 2022
Contributions:2 commits in 7 years 9 months
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