Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor

Principal Investigator with background in Evolution and Complex Systems. Responsible for overall administration of the project.

Martin Cody

Co-PI with expertise in Ecology and bird biology. Responsible for recordings and characterizing ecological context for songs.

Kung Yao

Co-PI with expertise in signal processing. Responsible for localization and source separation of bird songs.


Abeer Alwan

Co-PI with expertise in acoustic analysis Responsible for automated analysis and phrase identification of recorded songs.

Edward Stabler

Co-PI with expertise in Linguistics. Responsible for characterizing the grammar of the bird songs and with linguistic analysis generally.

Victoria Vesna

Collaborator with expertise in design and media arts. Responsible for art | science part of project.


Travis Collier

Collaborator with primary responsibility for construction of acoustic sensor arrays.

Lewis Girod

Collaborator with expertise in computer science. shared responsibility for construction of acoustic sensor arrays and their localization.

Edgar Vallejo

Collaborator with expertise in computer science. Advisor on database and general software management.


Takashi Ikegami

Collaborator with expertise in complex systems and art | Science.

Ralph Hudson

Collaborator with experience in signal processing and advisor on management of complex science/engineering projects.

Reiji Suzuki

Computational analysis of bird songs.


Kazutoshi Sasahara

Computational analysis of bird songs.