Speakers

Imre Bartos is an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Florida. His research focuses on rare-event detection, weak-signal inference and decision-making under uncertainty, with applications spanning gravitational-wave and high-energy neutrino astronomy and operational decision-making in high-consequence settings. He was a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration during the first detection of gravitational waves, where combining incomplete and uneven evidence from heterogeneous observation channels was the central methodological problem. He applies the same methodology to problems including industrial risk monitoring and wildfire response, with work in the latter area developed for the XPRIZE-Wildfire competition. His broader applied work focuses on turning heterogeneous, uncertain evidence into transparent, auditable decisions in high-consequence settings, with bushfire and wildfire preparedness as a current focus.