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Dr. Catherine Nakalembe and Dr. Hannah Kerner Named on the 2021 Radiant Earth Foundation's List of 15 Leading Women in ML4EO

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Image with Profile shots of women. Text: 15 Leading Women in ML4EO, 2021, Radiant Earth Foundation

Radiant Earth Foundation has released an article "Celebrating Women Leading the ML4EO Community." In it they list out the 15 women who were selected out of 56 nominations in the ML4EO community. Dr. Catherine Nakalembe and Dr. Hannah Kerner have been listed as 2021 finalists. A quick look at their profiles is below and for more information about the criteria used to rank the nominees and the profiles of all of the 15 women, you can read the full article here: https://medium.com/radiant-earth-insights/15-leading-women-in-ml4eo-86ce9f660626

Catherine Nakalembe, NASA Harvest (United States & Uganda)

Dr. Catherine Nakalembe is the program director of NASA Harvest Africa and an assistant research professor at the University of Maryland. Catherine uses remote sensing, machine learning, and Earth observation to assess food insecurity and disaster risk in Africa to aid smallholder farmers throughout the continent. More information here: https://link.medium.com/kAWHxmkHseb

Hannah Kerner, NASA Harvest (United States)

Dr. Hannah Kerner is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, the machine learning lead, and the U.S. domestic co-lead at NASA Harvest. She is devoted to developing food insecurity solutions through crop classification and machine learning on remote sensing data. More information here: https://link.medium.com/kAWHxmkHseb

 

Published on Mon, 03/08/2021 - 10:55

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