Dr Scarlett Raine is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Queensland University of Technology’s School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics, and a Chief Investigator in the QUT Centre for Robotics. In her research, Scarlett is pioneering the use of computer vision and artificial intelligence to analyse underwater images and help monitor marine ecosystems more efficiently. She brings her expertise to the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program as a Chief Investigator on the $3.5m Transition to Deployment sub-program, where she is developing an AI-driven Reef Guidance System for automated re-seeding of temperature resilient coral babies to degraded reefs.  She completed her PhD in 2024 on the topic of Weakly Supervised Segmentation of Underwater Imagery, and was recognised with the Executive Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award.  Scarlett is motivated by data-constrained and weakly-labelled problems, and automated analysis of challenging real-world field data, with a particular focus on conservation of marine ecosystems.