2026
Geospatial foundation models enable data-efficient tree species mapping in temperate mountain forests
James G. C. Ball, Jana Annika Wicklein, Zhengpeng Feng, Jovana Knezevic, Sadiq Jaffer, Anil Madhavapeddy, Clement Atzberger, Michele Dalponte, David A. Coomes
Working paper, bioRxiv. Mar 2026.Link
Applications of the TESSERA Geospatial Foundation Model to Diverse Environmental Mapping Tasks
Zhengpeng Feng, Clement Atzberger, Sadiq Jaffer, Jovana Knezevic, Silja Sormunen, Robin Young, Madeline C. Lisaius, Markus Immitzer, Toby Jackson, James G. C. Ball, David A. Coomes, Anil Madhavapeddy, Andrew Blake, Srinivasan Keshav
Working paper, SSRN. Jan 2026.Link
2025
Three steps for OCaml to crest the AI humps
Sadiq Jaffer, Jon Ludlam, Ryan Gibb, Thomas Gazagnaire, Anil Madhavapeddy
Proceedings of the 2025 OCaml Workshop. Oct 2025.PDFLink
AI-assisted Living Evidence Databases for Conservation Science
Sadiq Jaffer, William Morgan, Sam Reynolds, Alec Christie, Anil Madhavapeddy, Bill Sutherland
Working paper, Cambridge Open Engage. Oct 2025.PDFLink
TESSERA: Temporal Embeddings of Surface Spectra for Earth Representation and Analysis
Zhengpeng Feng, Clement Atzberger, Sadiq Jaffer, Jovana Knezevic, Silja Sormunen, Robin Young, Madeline C. Lisaius, Markus Immitzer, Toby Jackson, James G. C. Ball, David A. Coomes, Anil Madhavapeddy, Andrew Blake, Srinivasan Keshav
Working paper, arXiv. Jun 2025.PDFLink
Learning lessons from over-crediting to ensure additionality in forest carbon credits
Thomas Swinfield, Abby Williams, David A. Coomes, Michael Dales, Patrick Ferris, Alejandro Guizar-Coutiño, James Hartup, Jody Holland, Sadiq Jaffer, Julia P.G. Jones, Miranda Lam, Srinivasan Keshav, Anil Madhavapeddy, Eleanor Toye Scott, Thales West, Andrew Balmford
Working paper, Cambridge Open Engage. Nov 2025.PDFLink
Steps towards an Ecology for the Internet
Anil Madhavapeddy, Sam Reynolds, Alec Christie, David A. Coomes, Michael Dales, Patrick Ferris, Ryan Gibb, Hamed Haddadi, Sadiq Jaffer, Josh Millar, Cyrus Omar, Bill Sutherland, Jon Crowcroft
Proceedings of the Sixth Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis. Aug 2025.PDFLink
Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution
Ryan Gibb, Patrick Ferris, David Allsopp, Michael Dales, Mark Elvers, Thomas Gazagnaire, Sadiq Jaffer, Thomas Leonard, Jon Ludlam, Anil Madhavapeddy
Working paper, arXiv. Jun 2025.PDFLink
Conservation changed but not divided
Sam Reynolds, Sara Beery, Neil Burgess, Mark Burgman, Stuart H.M. Butchart, Steven J. Cooke, David A. Coomes, Finn Danielsen, Enrico Di Minin, América Paz Durán, Amy Hinsley, Sadiq Jaffer, Julia P.G. Jones, Binbin V. Li, Anil Madhavapeddy, Lloyd Peck, Nathalie Pettorelli, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Bill Sutherland
Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Apr 2025.Link
Will AI speed up literature reviews or derail them entirely?
Sam Reynolds, Alec Christie, Lynn Dicks, Sadiq Jaffer, Anil Madhavapeddy, Bill Sutherland
Nature. Jul 2025.PDFLink
Emission Impossible: privacy-preserving carbon emissions claims
Jessica Man, Sadiq Jaffer, Patrick Ferris, Martin Kleppmann, Anil Madhavapeddy
Working paper, arXiv. Jun 2025.PDFLink
Careful design of Large Language Model pipelines enables expert-level retrieval of evidence-based information from syntheses and databases
Radhika Iyer, Alec Christie, Anil Madhavapeddy, Sam Reynolds, Bill Sutherland, Sadiq Jaffer
PLOS ONE. May 2025.PDFLink
2024
The potential for AI to revolutionize conservation: a horizon scan
Sam Reynolds, Sara Beery, Neil Burgess, Mark Burgman, Stuart H.M. Butchart, Steven J. Cooke, David A. Coomes, Finn Danielsen, Enrico Di Minin, América Paz Durán, Francis Gassert, Amy Hinsley, Sadiq Jaffer, Julia P.G. Jones, Binbin V. Li, Oisin Mac Aodha, Anil Madhavapeddy, Stephanie O'Donnell, Bill Oxbury, Lloyd Peck, Nathalie Pettorelli, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Emily Shuckburgh, Bernardo Strassburg, Hiromi Yamashita, Zhongqi Miao, Bill Sutherland
Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Dec 2024.Link
Harnessing temporal & spectral dimensionality to identify individual trees in tropical forests
James G. C. Ball, Sadiq Jaffer, Anthony Laybros, Colin Prieur, Toby Jackson, Anil Madhavapeddy, Nicolas Barbier, Gregoire Vincent, David A. Coomes
Working paper, bioRxiv. Jun 2024.PDFLink
Planetary computing for data-driven environmental policy-making
Patrick Ferris, Michael Dales, Sadiq Jaffer, Amelia Holcomb, Eleanor Toye Scott, Thomas Swinfield, Alison Eyres, Andrew Balmford, David A. Coomes, Srinivasan Keshav, Anil Madhavapeddy
Working paper, arXiv. Mar 2024.PDFLink
Towards Scalable Deep Species Distribution Modelling using Global Remote Sensing
Emily Morris, Anil Madhavapeddy, Sadiq Jaffer, David A. Coomes
In proceedings of ICLR 2024 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning. May 2024.PDFLink
Global, robust and comparable digital carbon assets
Sadiq Jaffer, Michael Dales, Patrick Ferris, Thomas Swinfield, Derek Sorensen, Robin Message, Srinivasan Keshav, Anil Madhavapeddy
In proceedings of 6th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Apr 2024.PDFLink
Uncertainty at scale: how CS hinders climate research
Patrick Ferris, Michael Dales, Thomas Swinfield, Sadiq Jaffer, Srinivasan Keshav, Anil Madhavapeddy
Working paper, Undone Computer Science. Feb 2024.PDF
PACT Tropical Moist Forest Accreditation Methodology v2.1
Andrew Balmford, David A. Coomes, Michael Dales, Patrick Ferris, James Hartup, Sadiq Jaffer, Srinivasan Keshav, Miranda Lam, Anil Madhavapeddy, Robin Message, E.-Ping Rau, Thomas Swinfield, Charlotte Wheeler
Working paper, Cambridge Open Engage. Aug 2024.PDFLink
2022
Continuous Monitoring of OCaml Applications Using Runtime Events
Sadiq Jaffer, Patrick Ferris
In proceedings of 2022 OCaml Users and Developers Workshop. Aug 2022.PDFLink
2021
Experiences with Effects
Thomas Leonard, Craig Ferguson, Patrick Ferris, Sadiq Jaffer, Tom Kelly, KC Sivaramakrishnan, Anil Madhavapeddy
In proceedings of 2021 OCaml Users and Developers Workshop. Aug 2021.PDFLink
Retrofitting effect handlers onto OCaml
KC Sivaramakrishnan, Stephen Dolan, Leo White, Tom Kelly, Sadiq Jaffer, Anil Madhavapeddy
In proceedings of 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Jun 2021.PDFLink
2020
Retrofitting parallelism onto OCaml
KC Sivaramakrishnan, Stephen Dolan, Leo White, Sadiq Jaffer, Tom Kelly, Anmol Sahoo, Sudha Parimala, Atul Dhiman, Anil Madhavapeddy
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. Aug 2020.PDFLink
Parallelising your OCaml Code with Multicore OCaml
Sadiq Jaffer, Sudha Parimala, KC Sivaramakrishnan, Tom Kelly, Anil Madhavapeddy
In proceedings of 2020 OCaml Users and Developers Workshop. Aug 2020.PDFLink
