My name is Shir Bar, I’m a PhD candidate at Tel Aviv University and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, co-advised by Roi Holzman (TAU School of Zoology) and Shai Avidan (TAU School of Electrical Engineering).

My research is interdisciplinary and focuses on the application of computer vision to zoological research data.

Specifically, I focus on challenges of applying computer vision models to the analysis of rare animal behaviors, one that occur infrequently in either time or space.

As a marine biologist, the experimental system I chose is that of larval fish feeding behavior in commercial aquaculture pools. This behavior is crucially linked to the commercial growing efficiency however, knowledge regarding feeding rates and the effects of environmental parameters (such as temperature, oxygen saturation and pH) on them is still lacking. This is a gap I hope to help minimize during my PhD.

זכתה במלגת הצטיינות לסטודנטים לתארים מתקדמים עבור עידוד חקר ים התיכון תשפ”ג