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Qian Ge is a leading researcher at the intersection of paleoceanography and artificial intelligence, whose work has revolutionized the automated identification of marine microfossils. Her most-cited paper, "Automated species-level identification of planktic foraminifera using convolutional neural networks, with comparison to human performance" (2019, 96 citations), demonstrates a pivotal contribution: she developed and validated a deep learning approach that matches or exceeds human expert accuracy in classifying these key climate proxies. This breakthrough not only accelerates the painstaking process of foraminiferal analysis but also opens the door to large-scale, high-resolution paleoclimate reconstructions. By bridging computer vision and micropaleontology, Ge has provided a scalable tool that reduces human bias and labor, enabling researchers to process vast sediment core datasets efficiently. Her work has been widely adopted in the paleoclimate community, fundamentally shifting how species-level data are generated. Beyond this flagship study, Ge continues to advance automated taxonomic classification, making her a key figure in the digital transformation of Earth science research.
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