About

I am a PhD student at The Ohio State University studying computer science and engineering, coadvised by Dr. Christopher Stewart and Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf.

Curriculum Vitae
Expected Graduation: Spring 2026

My research is focused on optimizing aerial system controls and designing autonomous navigation models and edge architecture for dynamic field animal behavior studies. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can easily traverse remote terrain and quickly navigate around occlusions to collect imagery for animal ecology studies. Multiple UAVs, or a swarm, provide multiple views of group-living animals, providing richer insight into animal behaviors in the wild. However, animals are dynamic and unpredictable, requiring system control and autonomous navigation models capable of adapting to dynamic scenes. Edge systems bring compute resources close to the data source, enabling real-time analysis, reducing latency, and efficiently managing the unpredictable workloads generated by autonomous navigation models.

Selected Publications

Characterizing and Modeling AI-Driven Animal Ecology Studies at the Edge

Jenna M. Kline, Austin O'Quinn, Tanya Berger-Wolf and Christopher Stewart
ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing - SEC 2024

A Framework for Autonomic Computing for In Situ Imageomics

Jenna M. Kline, Christopher Stewart, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Michelle Ramirez, Samuel Stevens, Reshma Ramesh Babu, Namrata Banerji, Alec Sheets, Sowbaranika Balasubramaniam, Elizabeth Campolongo, Matthew Thompson, Charles V. Stewart and Maksim Kholiavchenko, Daniel I. Rubenstein. Nina Van Tiel, and Jackson Miliko
4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems - ACSOS 2023
[Paper] [Code]

Integrating Biological Data into Autonomous Remote Sensing Systems for In Situ Imageomics: A Case Study for Kenyan Animal Behavior Sensing with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Jenna M. Kline, Maksim Kholiavchenko, Otto Brookes, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Charles V. Stewart, and Christopher Stewart
AAAI 2024, Workshop on Imageomics: Discovering Biological Knowledge from Images using AI
[Paper] [Data]

KABR: In-Situ Dataset for Kenyan Animal Behavior Recognition from Drone Videos

Maksim Kholiavchenko, Jenna M. Kline, Michelle Ramirez, Sam Stevens, Alec Sheets, Reshma Ramesh Babu, Namrata Banerji, Elizabeth Campolongo, Matthew Thompson, Nina Van Tiel, Jackson Miliko, Eduardo Bessa, Isla Duporge, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Daniel Rubenstein, Charles Stewart
WACV 2024, CV4Smalls Workshop
[Paper] [Project Page] [Data]

Decentralized Multi-Drone Coordination for Wildlife Video Acquisition

Denys Grushchak, Jenna Kline, Danilo Pianini, Nicolas Farabegoli, Gianluca Aguzzi, Martina Baiardi, and Christopher Stewart
5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems - ACSOS 2024
Best Poster Award
[Slides] [GitHub Repo] [Zenodo Repo]

An Agent-based Model of Directional Multi-herds

Denys Grushchak, Jenna Kline, Danilo Pianini, Nicolas Farabegoli
Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration - SISSY 2024, colocated with ACSOS 2024
[Slides] [Data] [Experiments]

Drone Swarms for Animal Monitoring: A Method for Collecting High-Quality Multi-Perspective Data

Edouard Rolland, Kasper Andreas Rømer Grøntved, Lucie Laporte-Devylder, Jenna M Kline, Anders Christensen, and Ulrik Pagh Schultz Lundquist
The 15th Annual International Micro Air Vehicle (IMAV) Conference, Bristol, UK, 2024. [Paper]

Invited Talks & Presentations

Individual Identification of Zebras with Autonomous UAV Swarms

Won first prize for Best Poster Award at the Translational Data Analytics Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum 2024 in Columbus, OH.
Poster presenter at the 2023 Grad Cohort Workshop for Women (CRA-WP) in San Francisco, CA.

PhD Forum Talk: An Adaptive Autonomous Aerial System for Dynamic Field Animal Ecology Studies

Talk at 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems - ACSOS 2024. [Slides]

Autonomous Drones for Collective Wildlife Behavior

Invited lecture for WildDrone Seminar Series (Virtual). [Slides]

Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure for Remote Sensing with Autonomous Aerial Robotics: Applications in Animal Ecology and Digital Agriculture

Poster presenter at Translational Data Analytics Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum 2023 in Columbus, OH.

Charting the Future of Harnessing Data Revolution (HDR) Ecosystem: Crafting a Collaborative Research Agenda

Session presenter at the 2023 NSF HDR Ecosystem Conference in Denver, CO.

Interdisciplinary Applications of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (AUAVs): A Case Study for Capturing the Behavior of Kenyan Wildlife

Poster presenter at the 2023 STARS Celebration, co-located with Tapia Conference in Dallas, TX.

Interdisciplinary Applications for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Speaker at the Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing 2023 in Huron, OH.

PhD Forum Talk: Edge Computing for Software-Defined Cartography

Talk at ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2022) in Seattle, WA.

Teaching

Data Management in the Cloud (CSE 3244)

Teaching Assistant, Autumn 2022
Lecture topics include systematic organization of data on cloud computing architectures, basic indexing techniques, including B-tree and hash-based indexing, fundamentals of query optimization, including access path selection and cardinality estimation, full and partial replication and data partitioning and distributed task scheduling.

Modeling and Problem Solving with Spreadsheets and Databases (CSE 2111)

Lab Instructor, Autumn 2021 & Spring 2022
Lecture topics include systematic organization of data on cloud computing architectures, basic indexing techniques, including B-tree and hash-based indexing, fundamentals of query optimization, including access path selection and cardinality estimation, full and partial replication and data partitioning and distributed task scheduling.

News Articles

Ph.D. Student Jenna Kline's Drone Research Accepted at Top Autonomous Systems Conference

Collaboration with Dr. Danilo Pianini's research group at the University of Bologna on multi-drone coordination for wildlife video acquisition using the Alchemist Simulator was accepted at ACSOS 2024.

A 'Swarm' of Solutions: Drone Research Takes Wildlife Conservation to New Heights

Collaboration with WildDroneEU on drone swarms for animal monitoring was accepted at IMAV 2024.

Imageomics Embarks on Kenya Research Experience

Drone pilot conducting field work in Kenya at the Mpala Research Center to collect data for the KABR dataset.

Contact

kline.377 [at] osu.edu
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