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Wolfram Innovator Award

Wolfram technologies have long been a major force in many areas of industry and research. Leaders in many top organizations and institutions have played a major role in using computational intelligence and pushing the boundaries of how the Wolfram technology stack is leveraged for innovation across fields and disciplines.

We recognize these deserving recipients with the Wolfram Innovator Award, which is awarded at the Wolfram Technology Conferences around the world.

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2025

Gareth Russell

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Areas: Conservation Biology, Ecology

Gareth Russell is a computational ecologist and conservation biologist, focusing on spatial and movement ecology. He started using Mathematica at Version 4, mainly for population modeling, and expanded his use as its capabilities have grown. Currently he uses it to build and fit statistical models of animal movement in complex real-world landscapes, which also requires the processing of geospatial movement tracks and the processing and sampling of remotely sensed data layers.

From the beginning Gareth also brought Mathematica into his teaching, from complete graduate courses in computational ecology and statistics to course modules on epidemiology to general education labs that introduce freshmen to chaos, fractals and other amazing phenomena. For a while he ran a self-hosted webMathematica site that provided free tools for doing common basic calculations in conservation biology. Recently he has been experimenting with building specialized CNNs for separation of certain hard-to-distinguish species encountered during biodiversity surveys.

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