Portrait of Fiona Victoria Stanley Jothiraj

PhD in Artificial Intelligence at Oregon State University

Fiona Victoria Stanley Jothiraj

Research Areas: AI for Social Good, Ecological Machine Learning, Generative AI, Federated Learning, and Trustworthy Machine Learning.

Beaverton, OR Provost Distinguished Scholarship Recipient fiona.victoria@gmail.com

Bio

I’m a PhD student in Artificial Intelligence at Oregon State University, specializing in AI for Social Good and Applied AI/ML in Ecology. My research focuses on utilizing ML-based species distribution modeling algorithms to demonstrate better predictability with the choice of habitat characterization. Additionally, I am investigating plant-pollinator interactions over a decade of environmental change using hierarchical occupancy modeling, uncovering critical insights into the dynamics of the ecosystem.

Prior to this, I worked in the industry on multi-modal AI systems and neural network quantization techniques. I have also contributed extensively to generative models and federated learning as part of privacy-preserving initiatives in machine learning.

Invited Talks

ICCV CVAM Workshop, Oct 2025

Invited talk on the role of Generative AI in Advertisement and Marketing. Link

Decentralized AI Hackathon @ Stanford, Sep 2025

Invited talk on Federated Learning for Generative Models. Link

University of Washington, May 2025

Invited talk for the graduate level course: Advanced Topics in Data Privacy.

Flower Monthly, Aug 2023

Invited talk on "Phoenix: A Federated Generative Diffusion Model." Video

Publications

Most recent publications on Google Scholar.

DECOR: Deep Embedding Clustering with Orientation Robustness

Fiona Victoria Stanley Jothiraj, Arunaggiri Pandian, Seth A. Eichmeyer
AAAI 2026 Bridge Program on Knowledge-guided Machine Learning. Also selected at AAAI 2026 Workshop on AI2ASE

Species distribution model performance improves when habitat characterizations
are centered on detected individuals instead of observers

Fang-Yu Shen, Fiona Victoria Stanley Jothiraj, Rebecca A Hutchinson, Tyler A Hallman, Jenna R Curtis, W Douglas Robinson
Ecological Indicators, 2025

Phoenix: A Federated Generative Diffusion Model

Fiona Victoria Stanley Jothiraj, Afra Mashhadi
ACM The Web Conference (WWW) 2024

Nostalgia on Twitter: Detection and Analysis of a Large-Scale Dataset

Fiona Victoria Stanley Jothiraj, Lingzi Hong, Afra Mashhadi
ASIS&T 2024

Empirical Dynamic Modelling of the Multi-Source Park Visitation Data

Vahid Shamsaddini, Fiona Victoria Stanley Jothiraj, Mandy Chen, Afra Mashhadi
Data for Policy Conference 2022

Personalized Emotion Detection using IoT and Machine Learning

Fiona Victoria Stanley Jothiraj, Afra Mashhadi
ArXiv, 2022

Time Series Prediction for Food sustainability

Fiona Victoria Stanley Jothiraj
ArXiv, 2022

Blogs

Untangling Azure IoT Hub and Stream Analytics

Medium

An Introduction to AWS IoT Core

Medium

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