Hello! I am Filippo

I am a researcher in Machine Learning for Ocean Conservation from Imperial College London. I love connecting to the ocean through any means, from freediving to computing. Share with me your ways to connect!

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Projects

🦈 SharkTrack A Machine Learning software that researchers use worldwide to analyse underwater videos (BRUVS) in near-instant time.

📡 Palantir Technologies I deployed advanced technology to real world use cases at this world leading data company, delivering and creating multi-milion dollar contracts in the aviation and climate change sector.

🌎 Climate Pre Accelerator I founded a university accelerator that launched 30 climate tech startups. It was featured in Forbes and nominated Climate Innovator by UNICEF.

📈 CDR.FYI A data dashboard bringing transparency to the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) market. It now has more than 10k monthly users and was featured in the Wall Street Journaly and Yahoo Finance.

Ocean AI Consultancy

I offer consultancy services for developing Machine Learning systems for Ocean Conservation. If you are interested, please email me here

News

Seminar Presentation: SharkTrack: AI-enhanced video analysis of sharks and rays

04/10/2024: Hosted by the FishAI Consortium, describe how to deploy the open-source SharkTrack software, as well as future development perspectives in the Ocean Vision AI domain.

PrePrint Available: SharkTrack: an accurate, generalisable software for streamlining shark and ray underwater video analysis

25/09/2024: Filippo Varini, Joel H. Gayford, Jeremy Jenrette, Matthew J. Witt, Francesco Garzon, Francesco Ferretti, Sophie Wilday, Mark E. Bond, Michael R. Heithaus, Danielle Robinson, Devon Carter, Najee Gumbs, Vincent Webster, Ben Glocker

SharkTrack nominated Outstanding Project by Imperial College

25/06/2024: The project was awarded the Imperial Solidatus Project Prize and was presented at the Imperial College Open Day

SharkTrack deployed in the Revillagigedo Archipelago

01/06/2024: In collaboration with Pelagios Kakunja and Ocean Blue Tree, we deployed SharkTrack in the biggest MPA of North America, in a 3-week boat expedition to the archipelago

Imperial Climate Pre Accelerator Cohort 1 completed!

30/05/2023: The Cohort 1 supported 103 climate entrepreneurs to launch 13 Climate Tech startups. The pitch day awarded £4,000 in prizes and was attended by 100 partners and investors.

Imperial Climate Pre Accelerator was featured in Forbes

03/03/2023: The startup accelerator inaugurated the Cohort 1 with 103 climate entrepreneurs from 7 universities worldwide.