PhD, University of Northern British Columbia Sep.2021 - present
Supervisor: Ken Otter
Committee: Heather Bryan, Joseph Shea, and Dexter Hodder
Thesis: Broad-scaled Avian Biodiversity Assessment with Passive Acoustic Monitoring
MSc, University of British Columbia Sep.2017 - Nov.2019
Supervisor: Bianca Eskelson
Thesis: Innovative and Conventional Modelling for Avian Acoustic and Fire Severity Analyses
Batchelor, National Taiwan University Sep.2012 - Jun.2017
Double major: School of Forestry and Resource Conservation & Department of Physics
Supervisor: Tzeng-Yih Lam, and Shi-Wei Chu
K. Baum, J., A. Slein, M., C. Garen, J., …, Tseng, S., et al. 2025 Widespread ecological responses and cascading effects of the record-breaking 2021 North American heatwave. Nature Ecology and Evolution (Under review)
Darras, K., Rountree, R., Van Wilgenburg, S., …, Tseng, S., et al. 2025 Worldwide Soundscapes: a synthesis of passive acoustic monitoring across realms. Global Ecology and Biogeography. (Accepted)
Tseng, S., Hodder, D., and Otter, K. 2025 Setting BirdNET confidence thresholds: Species-specific vs. universal approaches. Journal of Ornithology. (In print)
Tseng, S., Hodder, D., and Otter, K. 2024 Using Autonomous Recording Units for Vocal Individuality: Insights from Barred Owl Identification. Avian Conservation and Ecology, 19(1):article23.
Pelletier, F., Eskelson, B.N.I., Monleon, V.J., and Tseng, Y.-C. 2021 Using Landsat imagery to assess burn severity of National Forest Inventory plots. Remote Sensing, 12:10.
Tseng, Y.-C., Eskelson, B.N.I., Martin, K., and LeMay, V. 2021. Automatic bird sound detection: Logistic model based acoustic occupancy model. Bioacoustics, 30(3):324-340.
Tseng, Y.-C., and Chu, S.-W. 2017 High spatio-temporal-resolution detection of chlorophyll fluorescence dynamics from a single chloroplast with confocal imaging fluorometer. Plant Methods, 13:43.
Why do we band birds at all? 2024 Nature Conservation Quarterly, 124
Nest boxes for barn owl conservation 2023 Nature Conservation Quarterly, 122
When beaver dam collapses 2023 Nature Conservation Quarterly, 121
Listening to the whispers of the wings 2023 Discovery, 50(1):85-90
Hey, there are wild black bears in my backyard 2022 Nature Conservation Quarterly, 117
Avian field recordings (II) 2021 Feathers, 301:22-27
Avian field recordings (I) 2021 Feathers, 300:38-41
Apply statistics on bird “listening” 2019 Discovery, 47(1):21-22
Can statistics help ornithologists “hear” birds? 2018 BranchLines, 29(3):11
Ecological Data Science Summit (meeting note)
Santa Barbara, USA
Participants were teamed up to work on various projects related to AI usage
Feb.2025
Posit::conf (meeting note)
Seattle, USA
Selected as one of the 40 opportunity scholars in the conference
Aug.2024
AFO SCO-SOC WOS Joint Conference (meeting note)
Peoria, USA
Evaluation and application of BirdNET: identification of bird species by their sounds (Oral)
Aug.2024
International Ecoacoustic Congress (meeting note)
Madrid, Spain
Setting BirdNET confidence thresholds: Species-specific vs. universal approaches (Oral)
Jul.2024
Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology
Taipei, Taiwan
Monitoring avian biodiversity across wide spatiotemporal scale using passive acoustic monitoring (Oral)
Feb.2024
AOS-SCO Joint Conference (meeting note)
London, Canada
Large scale biodiversity assessment with bird sound (Poster)
Aug.2023
BC/Canada TWS Joint Conference (meeting note)
Victoria, Canada
Passive acoustic as a tool to monitor individual Barred Owls (Oral)
Mar.2023
UNBC Research Week
Prince George, Canada
Passive acoustic as a tool to monitor individual Barred Owls (Oral)
Feb.2023
International Ornithological Congress
Virtual
Modelling avian altitudinal migration using citizen science data (Oral)
Aug.2022
AOS-SCO Joint Conference
Virtual
seewave and tuneR: sound analysis in ornithology (Oral)
Aug.2021
Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology
Tainan, Taiwan
Modelling avian annual cycle distribution in Taiwan using citizen science data (Oral)
Feb.2021
Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology
Penghu, Taiwan
Automatic bird sound detection: ARU data analysis (Oral)
Jan.2020
Annual meeting of Ecological Society of America (meeting note)
Louisville, USA
Relationships between successive forest fires: A case study in central interior BC, Canada (Poster)
Aug.2019
Ecology & Evolution Retreat
Squamish, Canada
Automatic Bird Sound Detection: ARU data analysis (Oral)
Oct.2018
International Ornithological Congress
Vancouver, Canada
Automatic bird sound detection: Logistic regression based acoustic occupancy model (Oral)
Aug.2018
Annual Meeting of Soundscape Association
Taipei, Taiwan
Automatic bird sound detection: Logistic regression based acoustic occupancy model (Poster)
Jun.2018
Focus On Microscopy
Bordeaux, France
High spatio-temporal-resolution detection of chlorophyll fluorescence (Poster)
Apr.2017
International Workshop on Holography & Biomedical Molecular Imaging
Yilan, Taiwan
High Spatio-Temporal-Resolution Detection of Chlorophyll Fluorescence from a Single Chloroplast with Confocal Imaging Fluorometer (Poster)
Nov.2016
Annual meeting of Taiwan Physics Society
Kao-Hsiung, Taiwan
Detect Temporal Dynamics of Chlorophyll Fluorescence \textit{in vivo} with Confocal Microscopy (Poster)
Jan.2016
International Forestry Students' Symposium
Manila, Philippines
Chlorophyll fluorescence: A powerful tool for photobiology research (Oral)
Aug.2015
Listening to Nature: Using AI to Detect and Monitor Bird Biodiversity
BLISS
A weekly seminar for UBC students, visiting scholars and researchers
Nov.2024
Machine Learning Advances in Ornithology Research
Nature Vancouver
Nature Vancouver birder’s night
Nov.2023
From Taiwan to Arctic Tundra - the Bird as a Bridge (storytelling)
AOS - SCO annual meeting
Storytelling event at the last day of the academic conference
Aug.2023
Listen to the Whispers of Wings
Mossom Creek BioBlitz
Mossom Creek BioBlitz event public engagement
Jun.2023
Field recordist - a beautiful way to study Nature (interview)
Fuyu Life
Interview for Fuyu Life
Jan.2022
Each Sound Recording Represents a Profound Story (interview)
Canopy Life
Interview for Canopy Life
Jun.2021
The Siberian Crane: From Taiwan to Tundra (podcast)
Bird Notes
A special season of Bird Notes - Threatened
May.2021
I take design commissions for scientific visual design, focusing on wildlife conservation. See my portfolio.
Birds Canada
Sep.2024 – present
Process field collected ARU data through BirdNET
Endemic Species Research Institute
Apr.2020 – Jul.2021
Field bird survey & eBird citizen science data analysis
Birds Canada
Feb.2020 – Mar.2020
Digitalize historical BC bird survey data
Applied Analysis Hub (TA)
UNBC
Instructor: Eduardo Martins, Heather Bryan
Sep.2021 – present
NRES 776 Advanced Statistical Analyses for Natural Resource Sciences (co-instructor)
UNBC
Co-instructor: Lisa Koetke
2023 fall
Data Wrangling (TA)
UBC
Instructor: Tiffany Timbers, Tomas Beuzen
2019 fall
Descriptive Statistics and Probability for Data Science (TA)
UBC
Instructor: Mike Gelbart (2018), Vincenzo Coia (2019)
2018 fall, 2019 fall
Regression I, Regression II (TA)
UBC
Instructor: Gabriela Cohen Freue (I), Vincenzo Coia (II)
2019 spring, 2019 fall
Feature and Model Selection (TA)
UBC
Instructor: Mark Schmidt, Varada Kolhatkar
2019 spring
Advanced Biometrics (TA)
UBC
Instructor: Bianca Eskelson
2018 fall
Qualitative Analysis using R
UNBC
Host: Jennifer Wigglesworth
Mar.2023
Introduction to Git and Github
UNBC
Host: Applied Analysis Hub
Nov.2022
Data Wrangling with R
UNBC
Host: Applied Analysis Hub
Mar.2022
Data Wrangling with R (4 sessions)
Endemic Species Research Institute
Host: Jerome Ko
May.2021 – Jul.2021
Recording Techniques for Breeding Birds Survey (6 sessions)
Endemic Species Research Institute
Host: Luna Fan
Dec.2020 – Mar.2021
Automatic bird sound detection: ARU data analysis
Canadian Wildlife Service
Host: Kathy Martin
Oct.2018
Statistical Analysis in Ecology (5 sessions)
UBC
Host: Trevor Gareth Jones
Jan.2018 – Apr.2018
Student Presentation Award
SCO-SOC
Best oral presentation in the annual conference in Peoria, Illinois
Aug.2024
Best Student Presentation Award
BC & CAN TWS
Best student oral presentation in The Wildlife Society conference
Mar.2023
3 Minute Thesis Award
UNBC
1st place & people’s choice of UNBC 3MT competition
Feb.2023
Teaching Excellence Award
UNBC
Outstanding teaching performance as a teaching assistant
Sep.2022
Outstanding Oral Presentation Award
CABE
Outstanding oral presentations in Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology
Feb.2021
Master of Data Science TA Award
UBC
Best TAs in Master of Data Science program of the academic year
Jun.2019
3 Minute Thesis Award
UBC
First place of 3MT competition in UBC Faculty of Forestry
Feb.2019
College Student Research Creativity Award
MOST
Top 5% ranked research report
Aug.2017
Outstanding Poster and Presentation Award
NTU
Ranked 1, out of 14 groups, in physics department poster competition
Apr.2016
President Award
NTU
Top 5% ranked student in the semester
Jan.2016
Early Career Grant (Upcoming research project)
National Geographic
Leading a fieldwork in Lithuania for avian acoustic monitoring
May.2025
NBCGSS Legacy Scholarship
UNBC
For graduate student with contributions to the graduate program
Jun.2024
Hugh Hamilton Memorial Scholarship
Nature Vancouver
For graduate student with outstanding academic & involvement with Nature Science
May.2024
rOpenSci Championship Program
rOpenSci
Outstanding proposal for R package development
May.2024
Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctorial (CGS-D)
NSERC
Rewarding and retaining high-calibre doctoral students at Canadian institutions
Apr.2023
Susan Stevenson Memorial Award
UNBC
Excellence academic performance
Nov.2022
CUPE Local 3799 Annual Bursary
UNBC
Excellence academic performance
Sep.2022
Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship
MITACS
A long-term funding and internship for PhD students in Canada
Jun.2022
Graduate Entrance Research Scholarship
UNBC
High academic performance for new graduate student
Jan.2021
Mary and David Macaree Fellowship
UBC
Conducting research in Forestry
Sep.2019
VanDusen Graduate Fellowship in Forestry
UBC
Faculty of Forestry student in forest resource ecosystems
Feb.2019
Hugh Robert Duncan Chisholm Scholarship in Forestry
UBC
Conducting research in Forestry
Nov.2018
Werner and Hildegard HESSE Fellowship in Ornithology
UBC
Conducting research in Ornithology
Oct.2018
Pei-Huang Tung and Tan-Wen Tung Graduate Fellowship
UBC
Taiwanese students pursuing higher education in Canada
Oct.2018
Mary and David Macaree Fellowship
UBC
Students in Faculty of Forestry studying forest resource ecosystems
Sep.2018
BA Blackwell & Associates Scholarship in Fire Science
BA Blackwell & Associates
Conducting research about forest fire ecology
Sep.2018
Soundscape and Sound Research Scholarship
SAT
Soundscape or sound associated research
Aug.2018
Faculty of Forestry Strategic Recruitment Fellowships
UBC
Top 20% ranked student
Sep.2017
Arctic Research Cooperation Scholarship
TEEDF
Selected researcher for Arctic research project
Apr.2017
College Student Research Scholarship
MOST
Excellent research proposal
Jun.2016