Head of MEIL
Marine ecology, underwater bioacoustics, ecological informatics, machine learning
Email: lintzuhao[at]gate.sinica.edu.tw
Lab manager (2021-now)
Project: Using eDNA metabarcoding to assess the changes in fish communities in a marine protected area
Field manager (2022-now)
Project: Kayaking-based marine soundscape mapping: Observing the habitat disparity of snapping shrimp sounds
Research Assistant (2023-now)
Project: Evaluating coral reef resilience to typhoons: A marine soundscape approach
Research Assistant (2023-now, graduate student from 2021 to 2023)
Project 1: Diversity of fish sounds in Wanghaixiang Chaojing Bay Resource Conservation Area: Inter-annual and seasonal variability
Award of the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Ichthyological Society of Taiwan
Early Career Research Award of the XXVⅢ International Bioacoustics Congress
Project 2: Assessing the feasibility of using fish sound characteristics for taxonomic identification
Research Assistant (2024-now, graduate student from 2021 to 2023)
Project: Using passive acoustics and environmental DNA to monitor the fish communities of coral reefs
Award of the 5th Asia-Pacific Coral Reef Symposium
Ph.D. Candidate (2023-now)
Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Normal University (co-advisor: Dr. Yoko Nozawa)
Project: Healthy and unhealthy reef aspects as drivers of reef fish recruitment and community structure
Graduate student (2024-now, undergraduate student from 2023 to 2024)
Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University
Project: Exploring intra-specific variability using universal primers for eDNA metabarcoding
Undergraduate student (2023-now)
Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University
Award of the 2024 Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology
Undergraduate student (2022-2024)
Department of Life Sciences, National Central University
Project: An automated transcription method for assessing the diversity of humpback whales songs
Award of the 2023 Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology
NSTC Research Grant for University Students (112-2813-C-001-032-B)
TIGP Summer Intern (2024)
University of Phillipines Cebu
Project: Assessing the potential impacts of heat stress on subtropical and tropical reef soundscapes
Summer Intern (2023)
Department of Life Sciences, National Cheng Kung University
Project: Unveiling ecological dynamics off Kueishan Island through soundscape & eDNA
Summer Intern (2023)
Department of Biological Resources, National Chiayi University
Project: Unveiling ecological dynamics off Kueishan Island through soundscape & eDNA
Undergraduate student (2022-2024)
Department of Life Sciences, National Cheng Kung University
Project: Using eDNA metabarcoding to assess the spatial heterogeneity of fish communities off Kueishan Island
NSTC Research Grant for University Students (112-2813-C-001-034-B)
Research Assistant (2021-2022)
Graduate Intern (2020-2022)
Department of Informatics, Technische Universität München
Project: Exploring the echolocation behavior of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins via audio source separation
Undergraduate student (2020-2022)
University of Michigan
Project: Exploring intra- and inter-specific variations of dolphin whistles via unsupervised feature learning
Graduate student (2020-2022)
School of Forestry & Resource Conservation, College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture, National Taiwan University
Research Assistant (2020-2022)
Project 1: Developing machine learning tools of audio source separation
Project 2: Assessing acoustic diversity via audio source separation
Summer Intern (2022)
Department of Geography, National Taiwan Normal University
Project: Spatial and seasonal variations of fish sound distribution off Kueishan Island, Taiwan
Summer Intern (2020)
Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University
Research Assistant (2021)
Project: Using underwater soundscapes to assess ecosystem dynamics of marine protect areas
Research Assistant (2020-2022)
Project 1: Evaluating changes in coral reef ecosystems via unsupervised learning of soundscapes
Project 2: Soundscapes reveal the transition of marine ecosystems: An extreme case in Kueishan Island