Countries I work in
Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia
Expertise
Syafiie’s background in environmental and life sciences supports ecological research, conservation, and sustainable development. His experience includes field surveys, interdisciplinary collaboration, and addressing ecological challenges.
At Borneo Futures, Syafiie supports biodiversity data management, including data cleaning, QA/QC, standardisation of species and location records, and dataset maintenance. He also works to develop and refine verification workflows for citizen-science observations, including clustering and expert review pipelines, and supports AI-assisted species identification trials (e.g. acoustic detection workflows) to scale biodiversity monitoring.
Other responsibilities include repairing technical documentation (SOPs, methods notes), contributing to publications and project communications, and coordinating with teams, partners, and local stakeholders to deliver conservation and citizen science projects (KehatiKu, SIPEF, PENDAKI).
Publications
- Omar, M. S., Dennis, R., Meijaard, E. M., Sueif, S., Zaini, S., Mohamdih, M., … & Meijaard, E. (2025). Centering Communities in Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Preliminary Insights from a Citizen Science Initiative in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Diversity, 17(10), 679. https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/10/679
- Otani, S., Bertoli, L., Lucchini, F., van den Beuken, T. P., Boin, D., Ellis, L., … & Schilthuizen, M. (2024). A new, unusually large, Clavicornaltica Scherer, 1974 flea beetle from Borneo, described and sequenced in the field by citizen scientists (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae). Biodiversity Data Journal, 12, e119481. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10960154/
- van Strien, A. J., Meijaard, E., Nardiyono, Suief, S., & Zaini, S. (2025). Occupancy estimation of wild species in a palm oil plantation using unstructured data. bioRxiv, 2025-07. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.11.664290v2.abstract
- Maharani, N., Nardiyono, Munthe, C. R., Swayanuar, P., Ni’Matullah, S., Sueif, S., … & Meijaard, E. (2025). A novel citizen science-based wildlife monitoring and management tool for oil palm plantations. bioRxiv, 2025-01. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.12.632638v1.abstract