Naveen Dar
High-school student and developer of a lightweight neural-network gunshot detector, speaking about the design, training, and field performance of his model.
Best podcasts with Naveen Dar
Ranked by the Snipd community
Feb 27, 2026 • 22min
A teen, an algorithm and the race to stop poaching
Richard Headley, a statistical ecologist studying acoustic monitoring. Naveen Dar, a high‑school coder who built a lightweight neural gunshot detector. Melissa Hobson, a wildlife writer who investigates the project. They discuss acoustic vs camera monitoring, the messy challenge of false positives in forests, building compact neural nets that generalize across habitats, and the promise and limits of real‑time alerts for anti‑poaching.
