About

Who are you?

My name is Dakila (Dax) Ledesma, a Biology Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, I engineer and apply computer vision and deep learning techniques to study and analyze plant morphology contained within digitized herbarium sheets on a “big data” scale.

…Why create this site?

This was primarily made as an accountability tool, where I put on public display whether I’ve been productive or not. Secondarily, it serves as a quick reminder tool for the tasks I’ve completed. Lastly, it archives everything I’ve done potentially years after I’ve forgotten about it, which may become useful at some point in time.

I used to do something similar to what this site does manually by updating a Google Slides presentation I shared to my mentors–so making something automatic saves me some time.

I thought GitHub Pages is static. How does this site work?

Please refer to the GitHub repository page and the included README.

Links

GitHub

Google Scholar

ORCID

LinkedIn

Discord

iNaturalist

…and basically everywhere else on the internet, I’m either dakilaledesma or Invuska.