I am a Geospatial Data Scientist from 🇲🇾 working remotely and pondering about where to go next! My background is in Geography, with a particular interest in Earth Observation using satellites 🛰️, having done cool research on Antarctic ice dynamics during my PhD in Aotearoa/New Zealand 🥝. Nowadays, I'm striving to boost the next generation of scientists towards better open science practices, crafting composable pipelines and designing for accelerated hardware systems that will take us to the next frontier 🚀

These are some of the hats I wear:

• ☁️ Machine Learning Engineer in the GeoAI team at Development Seed
• 🌏 Core Developer of PyGMT: A Pythonic Interface to the Generic Mapping Tools
• ⚒️ Maintainer of recipes on conda-forge and other packaging efforts

I'm currently:

• ⚙️ Developing a Rust/PyO3 library called cog3pio, with an outlook on GPU-accelerated access to Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs.
• 🌱 Making open source contributions to Pangeo, GeoRust and other adjacent ecosystems!

Want to connect?

• 💻 I'm open to building partnerships with folks working on open geospatial tools, specifically with a Remote Sensing focus, so reach out!
• 📫 Track me on Mastodon as @weiji14
• 👀 Be sure to check out my cool Computer Vision projects:
  • DeepBedMap - Super Resolution Generative Adversarial Network to resolve the bed topography of Antarctica
  • DeepIceDrain - Finding subglacial lakes using unsupervised DBSCAN clustering
  • DeepSlide - Self-supervised learning on SAR data for change detection, for the FDL2022 NASA Earth Science challenge
  • Crevasse detection and navigation - Done using Image Segmentation + Reinforcement Learning
  • S2S2Net - Sentinel-2 Super-Resolution Segmentation Network using a Vision Transformer model (SegFormer)

⚡ Fun fact: I was brought up trilingual, and am fluent in English, 中文 & Bahasa Melayu.