Settlement Detection

Project context: External blogpost

For my contributions, I was privileged to be granted primary authorship of the following 2 papers, which got accepted into the globally recognized conference NeurIPS.

• 2021 NeurIPS Primary author for Mapping Access to Water and Sanitation using Publicly Accessible Satellite Imagery;
• 2020 NeurIPS Primary author for Mapping New Informal Settlements Using Machine Learning and Satellite Images;

Personal contributions:

• Pioneered the use of Google Earth Engine for data extraction, ingestion and processing;
• Helped direct foreign aid in crisis-stricken Colombia, by making previously impossible satellite analysis feasible with AI, with 2 co-authored NeurIPS papers: detection, prediction;
• Owned the development of a satellite image prediction model that produced 250 m resolution maps over a 300K sqkm land area;
• Led meetings with international clients across different time zones such as ET, UTC8;