Congratulations to Litty Mathew, a third year PhD student at the School of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin whose research was recognised with the Best Paper Award at the 7th International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA 2025), held in Paris in August. ICSTA is a prestigious international forum that showcases leading advances in statistical theory and applications.
The award-winning paper, “Assessing Ecosystem Dynamics Under Disturbance: A Hidden Markov Model Framework for Species Detection Data”, introduces an innovative method to analyse species behaviour during sudden, short-term environmental changes. Drawing on processed passive acoustic monitoring data, the framework has wide applicability across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, providing fresh insights for conservation ecology.
She is funded by the E3 Kinsella Digitising Biodiversity project, further highlighting the School’s role in advancing impactful, cross-disciplinary research.