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<h3 class="mb-2">Thomas Napier</h3>
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<span class="t-secondary"><b style="color: #2bd284 !important;;">PhD Candidate and Graduate Researcher</b></span>
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<span class="t-secondary">Discipline of Information Technology </span>
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<span class="t-secondary">College of Science and Engineering</span>
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<span class="t-secondary">James Cook University</span>
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<a href="assets/documents/CV/Thomas Napier CV-redacted.pdf" class="link-dark" target="_blank" data-en="CV [Updated 06/2026]">CV [Updated 04/2025]</a>
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I am a PhD Candidate, Sessional Lecturer and Graduate Research Worker at the Discipline of Information Technology, <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/college-of-science-and-engineering">College of Science and Engineering</a>, <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/">James Cook University (JCU)</a>. I graduated with a Bachelor of Information Technology with Distinction (GPA 6.78/7.00) in 2020 and with First-Class Honours (1A) in 2021, earning the <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/graduation/university-medallists">University Medal</a> under the supervision of Prof. Ickjai Lee.
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Currently, I am in the final year of my PhD (completion in August 2026) at JCU, where I develop applied machine learning and signal processing frameworks for analysing large-scale natural soundscapes. I am supervised by an interdisciplinary advisor panel including Prof. Ickjai Lee, Dr. Euijoon Ahn (Information Technology) and Distinguished Prof. Lin Schwarzkopf, and Dr. Slade Allen-Ankins (Ecology and Zoology).
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I have also collaborated on several multidisciplinary, industry-based projects, including designing machine learning models for marine biology with the <a href="https://aagai.com.au/">Australian Abalone Growers Association</a>, developing advanced tourism analytics with <a href="https://respax.com/">ResPax</a>, and improving insurance claims processing workflows with <a href="https://helloclaims.com.au/">HelloClaims</a>. These projects involved applying deep learning, data mining, and augmented reality solutions to address real-world challenges.
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Keywords: AR and AI in education, Bioacoustics, Data visualization, Dimensionality reduction, Domain generalisation, Ecoacoustics, Environmental informatics, Environmental monitoring, Generative AI, Human-computer interaction, Machine learning, Representation learning, Signal processing, Software development, Sound event detection, Unsupervised pattern discovery
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My research focuses on creating scalable, generalisable, and data-driven approaches for ecoacoustic analysis, with the aim of overcoming the bottlenecks of manual annotation in large-scale biodiversity monitoring. I investigate unsupervised and semi-supervised methods that prioritise structure discovery before labelling, integrating human-inspired feature representations, auditory scene analysis, and ecological reasoning to produce acoustically pure and ecologically meaningful clusters of sound events. This work emphasizes adaptive sound event detection, clustering in the presence of polyphony, and human-in-the-loop verification to direct expert effort where it is most valuable
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In parallel, I explore the use of AR and GenAI technologies in education, developing tools that improve the teaching of complex IT concepts and leveraging generative AI to support assessment and feedback. Across both domains, my goal is to design user-friendly, scalable solutions that reduce friction, enhance interpretability, and enable broader adoption—supporting biodiversity monitoring, conservation, and educational innovation.
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<p class="mb-1"><b>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Technology</b></p>
<p class="mb-1">Feb 2022 - Aug 2026</p>
<p>Research Area: Species Classification using Machine Learning-Based Signal Processing Techniques in Natural Soundscapes</p>
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<p class="mb-1"><b>Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours)</b></p>
<p class="mb-1">2020 - 2021</p>
<p>Grade: First Class (1A), 7.00 GPA, University Medal</p>
<p>Research Area: Using Mobile-Based Augmented Reality and Object Detection for Real-Time Abalone Growth Monitoring</p>
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<p class="mb-1"><b>Bachelor of Information Technology</b></p>
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<p>Grade: 6.78/7.00 GPA, Graduated With Distinction</p>
<p>Minoring in Human-Computer Interactions and Games Design</p>
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<span class="award-title">CSE HDR Competitve Grant Round 2 2025 ($3000)</span>
<span class="award-meta">· James Cook University · Feb 2026</span>
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Highly competitive internal research training grant awarded, supporting HDR research activities and development.
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<span class="award-title">AAAI-26 DC Travel Award – Singapore ($3375)</span>
<span class="award-meta">· AAAI · Nov 2025</span>
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Competitive travel grant awarded to support participation in the AAAI-26 Doctoral Consortium, covering flights and accommodation.
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<span class="award-title">Sessional Teaching Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning ($500)</span>
<span class="award-meta">· JCU · Sept 2025</span>
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<li>April, 2026: My abstract submission was accepted for presentation at the <a href="https://ecoacoustics2026.org/">World Ecoacoustics Congress 2026</a> in Cairns, Australia.</li>
<li>March, 2026: I was accepted into the doctoral consortium for my submission "Creating Generalizable Data-Driven Approaches for Biodiversity Monitoring via Acoustics" at the <a href="https://www.pakdd2026.org/">30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining</a> (PAKDD-2026).</li>
<li>February, 2026: I was awarded $3000 from the CSE HDR Competitive Grant Scheme at James Cook University</li>
<li>February, 2026: Our paper "A Data-Driven Approach for Discovering Pure Clusters in Complex Multi-Source Terrestrial Soundscapes" was accepted by the <a href="https://www.pakdd2026.org/">30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining</a> (PAKDD-2026).</li>
<li>December, 2025: I won the 1st Place Award for best presentation: <em>"Faster, Smarter Listening: Reducing Friction in Passive Acoustic Monitoring Using the LEAVES Framework"</em> at the Annual Engineering, IT, and Physical Sciences HDR Conference at James Cook University. Special thanks to the event organisers and my supervisors, and congratulations to all other presenters for their fascinating talks. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mahmood-sadat-noori_it-was-a-pleasure-to-coordinate-the-2025-activity-7402516040674373632-KM_q?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACjAMA4B0-w9fsU3Pn-Hy3Pdta2WQ50R6A4">link</a>
<li>November, 2025: I was chosen as one of 41 doctoral researchers worldwide to participate in the prestigious <a href= "https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-26/">AAAI-26</a> (Top-2 AI conference) Doctoral Consortium in Singapore.
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<li>September, 2025: I was pleased to accept 1 of 5 <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/edqs/pd-and-recognition/awards-and-citations/sessional-teaching-awards/past-recipients-jcu-sessional-teaching-awards">Sessional Teaching Awards</a> for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning at the <a href="https://www.jcu.edu.au/edqs/pd-and-recognition/awards-and-citations/sessional-teaching-awards">Celebrating Excellence in Learning & Teaching at JCU: Teaching Excellence Awards</a> ceremony.</a>
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<li>August, 2025: I was appointed as the lecturer for the JCU-Xi’an University of Technology international partnership program for CP1404: Python Programming and CP2404: Database Modelling.</a>
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<li>May, 2025: I was appointed as the subject coordinator and lecturer for CP5804: Database Systems.</a>
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<li>March, 2025: I was invited to present at the <a href="https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/bioacoustalks/">BioacousTalks</a> series hosted by the K. Lisa Yang Center for Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Watch it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGRJcYRNl58&t=2s&ab_channel=K.LisaYangCenterforConservationBioacoustics">here.</a>
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<li>January, 2025: I was appointed as the subject coordinator for CP2414: Network Security and CP2501: Cloud Computing.
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<li>January, 2025: Our paper, 'LEAVES: An open-source web-based tool for the scalable annotation and visualisation of large-scale ecoacoustic datasets using cluster analysis',
was accepted by <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ecological-informatics">Ecological Informatics</a> <b>(IF=7.3)</b>
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title={A Data-Driven Approach for Discovering Pure Clusters in Complex Multi-Source Terrestrial Soundscapes},
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title={A Scalable Pipeline for the Unsupervised Segmentation of Heterogeneous Natural Soundscapes},
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@article{napier2025leaves,
title={LEAVES: An open-source web-based tool for the scalable annotation and visualisation of large-scale ecoacoustic datasets using cluster analysis},
author={Napier, Thomas and Ahn, Euijoon and Allen-Ankins, Slade and Schwarzkopf, Lin and Lee, Ickjai},
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@article{NAPIER2024124220,
title = {Advancements in preprocessing, detection and classification techniques for ecoacoustic data: A comprehensive review for large-scale Passive Acoustic Monitoring},
journal = {Expert Systems with Applications},
volume = {252},
pages = {124220},
year = {2024},
issn = {0957-4174},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.124220},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417424010868},
author = {Thomas Napier and Euijoon Ahn and Slade Allen-Ankins and Lin Schwarzkopf and Ickjai Lee},
keywords = {Ecoacoustics, Passive acoustic monitoring, Deep learning, Machine learning, Acoustic signal processing, Bioacoustics, Species identification},
abstract = {Computational ecoacoustics has seen significant growth in recent decades, facilitated by the reduced costs of digital sound recording devices and data storage. This progress has enabled the continuous monitoring of vocal fauna through Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), a technique used to record and analyse environmental sounds to study animal behaviours and their habitats. While the collection of ecoacoustic data has become more accessible, the effective analysis of this information to understand animal behaviours and monitor populations remains a major challenge. This survey paper presents the state-of-the-art ecoacoustics data analysis approaches, with a focus on their applicability to large-scale PAM. We emphasise the importance of large-scale PAM, as it enables extensive geographical coverage and continuous monitoring, crucial for comprehensive biodiversity assessment and understanding ecological dynamics over wide areas and diverse habitats. This large-scale approach is particularly vital in the face of rapid environmental changes, as it provides crucial insights into the effects of these changes on a broad array of species and ecosystems. As such, we outline the most challenging large-scale ecoacoustics data analysis tasks, including pre-processing, visualisation, data labelling, detection, and classification. Each is evaluated according to its strengths, weaknesses and overall suitability to large-scale PAM, and recommendations are made for future research directions.}
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<div class="pub-congress">36th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence <b>(20% Acceptance Rate)</b> | November, 2023</div>
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@InProceedings{10.1007/978-981-99-8388-9_38,
author="Napier, Thomas
and Ahn, Euijoon
and Allen-Ankins, Slade
and Lee, Ickjai",
editor="Liu, Tongliang
and Webb, Geoff
and Yue, Lin
and Wang, Dadong",
title="An Optimised Grid Search Based Framework for Robust Large-Scale Natural Soundscape Classification",
booktitle="AI 2023: Advances in Artificial Intelligence",
year="2024",
publisher="Springer Nature Singapore",
address="Singapore",
pages="468--479",
abstract="Large-scale natural soundscapes are remarkably complex and offer invaluable insights into the biodiversity and health of ecosystems. Recent advances have shown promising results in automatically classifying the sounds captured using passive acoustic monitoring. However, the accuracy performance and lack of transferability across diverse environments remains a challenge. To rectify this, we propose a robust and flexible ecoacoustics sound classification grid search-based framework using optimised machine learning algorithms for the analysis of large-scale natural soundscapes. It consists of four steps: pre-processing including the application of spectral subtraction denoising to two distinct datasets extracted from the Australian Acoustic Observatory, feature extraction using Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients, feature reduction, and classification using a grid search approach for hyperparameter tuning across classifiers including Support Vector Machine, k-Nearest Neighbour, and Artificial Neural Networks. With 10-fold cross validation, our experimental results revealed that the best models obtained a classification accuracy of 96{\%} and above in both datasets across the four major categories of sound (biophony, geophony, anthrophony, and silence). Furthermore, cross-dataset validation experiments using a pooled dataset highlight that our framework is rigorous and adaptable, despite the high variance in possible sounds at each site.",
isbn="978-981-99-8388-9"
}
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@article{NAPIER2023107744,
title = {Using mobile-based augmented reality and object detection for real-time Abalone growth monitoring},
journal = {Computers and Electronics in Agriculture},
volume = {207},
pages = {107744},
year = {2023},
issn = {0168-1699},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2023.107744},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168169923001321},
author = {Thomas Napier and Ickjai Lee},
keywords = {Deep learning, Greenlip Abalone, Augmented reality, Object detection, Aquaculture},
abstract = {Abalone are becoming increasingly popular for human consumption. Whilst their popularity has risen, measuring the number and size distribution of Abalone at various stages of growth in existing farms remains a significant challenge. Current Abalone stock management techniques rely on manual inspection which is time consuming, causes stress to the animal, and results in mediocre data quality. To rectify this, we propose a novel mobile-based tool which combines object detection and augmented reality for the real-time counting and measuring of Abalone, that is both network and location independent. We applied our portable handset tool to both measure and count Abalone at various growth stages, and performed extended measuring evaluation to assess the robustness of our proposed approach. Our experimental results revealed that the proposed tool greatly outperforms traditional approaches and was able to successfully count up to 15 Abalone at various life stages with above 95% accuracy, as well as significantly decrease the time taken to measure Abalone while still maintaining an accuracy within a maximum error range of 2.5% of the Abalone’s actual size.}
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<div class="pub-authors mt-1"><span class="pub-author">Niels C. Munksgaard</span>, Ickjai Lee, <b>Thomas Napier</b>, Costijn Zwart, Lucas A. Cernusak, Michael I. Bird</div>
<div class="pub-congress">Geoscience Data Journal <b>(IF=3.3)</b> | October, 2022</div>
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@article{https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.180,
author = {Munksgaard, Niels C. and Lee, Ickjai and Napier, Thomas and Zwart, Costijn and Cernusak, Lucas A. and Bird, Michael I.},
title = {One year of spectroscopic high-frequency measurements of atmospheric CO, CH, HO and δC-CO at an Australian Savanna site},
journal = {Geoscience Data Journal},
volume = {10},
number = {4},
pages = {461-470},
keywords = {atmospheric CO2, CH4, NE Australia, savanna, δ13C-CO2},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.180},
url = {https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/gdj3.180},
eprint = {https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/gdj3.180},
abstract = {Abstract We provide a 1-year dataset of atmospheric surface CO2, CH4 and H2O concentrations and δ13C-CO2 values from an Australian savanna site. These semi-arid ecosystems act as carbon sinks in wet years but the persistence of the sink in dry years is uncertain. The dataset can be used to constrain uncertainties in modelling of greenhouse gas budgets, improve algorithms for satellite measurements and characterize the role of vegetation and soil in modulating atmospheric CO2 concentrations. We found pronounced seasonal variations in daily mean CO2 concentrations with an increase (by 5–7 ppmv) after the first rainfall of the wet season in early December with peak concentrations maintained until late January. The CO2 increase reflected the initiation of rapid microbial respiration from soil and vegetation sources upon initial wetting. As the wet season progressed, daily CO2 concentrations were variable, but generally decreased back to dry season levels as CO2 assimilation by photosynthesis increased. Mean daily concentrations of CH4 increased in the wet season by up to 0.2 ppmv relative to dry season levels as the soil profile became waterlogged after heavy rainfall events. During the dry season there was regular cycling between maximum CO2/minimum δ13C-CO2 at night and minimum CO2/maximum δ13C-CO2 during the day. In the wet season diel patterns were less regular in response to variable cloud cover and rainfall. CO2 isotope data showed that in the wet season, surface CO2 was predominantly a two-component mixture influenced by C3 plant assimilation (day) and soil/plant respiration (night), while regional background air from higher altitudes represented an additional CO2 source in the dry season. Higher wind speeds during the dry season increased vertical mixing compared to the wet season. In addition, night-time advection of high-altitude air during low temperature conditions also promoted mixing in the dry season.},
year = {2022}
}
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