Serena Mou

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Research Engineer

Serena Mou is a Research Engineer with the QUT Centre for Robotics (QCR). Serena is an advocate for environmental health and conservation and is focused on how robotics can help to achieve positive environmental change.

Her focus has been on Marine Robotics, and more specifically the two robotic platforms FloatyBoat (an Autonomous Surface Vehicle) and RangerBot (an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle). A number of different payloads have been developed for these platform to assist in a number of marine issues ranging from reef restoration to disease detection.

She has developed a number of machine learning models for the robots, for Biologists and for Ecologists for use cases such as seabird species detection and counting, sea turtle counting, reef suitability for coral restoration, detection of nuisance species of algae and detection of brain corals that are rare and susceptible to stony coral tissue loss disease.