- Research Scientist @ Cetacea Research Institute (2015 - present)
- Postdoctoral Fellow @ Marine Ecology & Aquaculture Lab, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2021 - present)
- Bayesian hierarchical analysis of ontogenetic dietary shifts in Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins. Published in Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology
- Reproductive dynamics of an inshore delphinid reflect demographic consequences of large-scale coastal constructions. Published in Biological Conservation
- Dissecting the role of natural toxins and anthropogenic contaminants in mixture effects of seawater chemical cocktails on cetacean skin fibroblasts. Published in Environmental Science & Technology
- Stable isotope metrics to identify diet composition and resource partitioning among subpopulations
- Necropsy and post-mortem analysis of strandings in Hong Kong waters - patterns, hotspots, conservation implications
- Fine-scale spatial variability of marine soundscape corresponds with habitat utilization of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins in Hong Kong waters
- Passive acoustic monitoring in western and southern Hong Kong waters
- Night-time acoustic line transect for dolphin and porpoise detection and localization
| Topic | Representative Publications |
|---|---|
| Method Development | - Digestion method  - Holoraphic Imaging  - Nano-bubble for removal of MPs  - Computational 4D imaging of nanoplastic pollution (in prep.) |
| Microplastic contamination in human | - Faecal sample  - Sperm sample (in prep.) - Pediatric urine |
| Distribution of MPs in organisms | - Green-lipped mussel (Perna viridis)  - Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) (in prep.) -Jellyfish - Sponge in Deep Artic - Oysters |
| Environmental samples | - Hong Kong's rivers and streams (in submission) - Urban road runoff  - Tibetan salt lake  - Microbiome community on MP and natural particles in river water (major revision) - Microbiome community on MPs in marine water (in prep.) |
- Ho Y-W, Karczmarski L, Lin W, Lo MCY, Wu Y, & Baker DM (2025). Modeling life history parameters in marine mammals: Bayesian hierarchical analysis of ontogenetic dietary shifts in Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins. Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology 98(1), 1-16
- Jia M, Farid MU, Ho Y-W, Ma X, Wong PW, Nah T, He Y, Boey MW, Gang L, Fang JKH, Fan J, & An AK (2024) Advanced nanobubble flotation for enhanced removal of sub-10 µm microplastics from wastewater. Nature Communications 15, 9079
- Liang T#, Ho Y-W#, Wang Q, Wang P, Sun S, Fang JKH, & Liu X (2024) Distribution and risk assessment of microplastics in water, sediment and brine shrimps in a remote salt lake on the Tibetan Plateau, China. Journal of Hazardous Materials 476, 134959
- Chan SCY #, Ho Y-W#, & Karczmarski L.# (2024) Reproductive dynamics of an inshore delphinid reflect demographic consequences of large-scale coastal constructions. Biological Conservation 297, 110690
- Ho Y-W, Lin TH, Akamatsu T, & Karczmarski L (2024). Fine-scale spatial variability of marine soundscape corresponds with habitat utilization of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins in Hong Kong waters. Ecological Indicators 158, 111228
| Notebook | Link | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AI Word Highlighter |  |
Highlights specified words in a .docx file word list from Kobak et al. (2025). |
| PhotoID-Image-Process |   |
Dolphin fin detection with object detection using YOLO model, image renaming, cropping, and clustering using UMAP or KMeans. |
| Acoustic Localization | |
Comprehensive toolkit for acoustic line transect analysis, for calculating pulse intervals, filtering data, and visualizing sound pressure level (SPL) distributions and cross-correlations. |