Hemal flying drone at Blackbuck National Park, Gujarat.

Flying a drone at the Velavadar National Park, Gujarat, India, 2022. during fieldwork of Project MELA (Mating Ecology of a Lek-breeding Antelope).


Engineer turned ecologist working towards integrating science and art through community building.

I study behavior of insects, mammals and birds using large-scale deployment of sensors and AI. Currently, I am working as a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and University of Konstanz. I also work as independent artist and conduct science outreach activities in collaboration with art institutions across the world. ⇩

What’s new?

March 2026 - Invited talk at the Technical University of Munich ( Chair of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ) (23.03.2026)

March 2026 - Shorty story performance at „Niemand hat gefragt. Wir erzählen trotzdem“ : Bobby the Blackbuck at Karl der Grosse – das Debattierhaus Zurich (21.03.2026)

Feb 2026 : Our CHIRP dataset, the largest dataset to solve AI enabled individual tracking in wild birds is accepted in CVPR 2026, pre-print coming soon