Jonathan Giezendanner
Senior Researcher at Early Coffee Games SNC
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Giezendanner is a Senior Researcher and machine learning scientist with 10 years of experience applying deep learning to environmental and geospatial problems. He builds and deploys scalable models—recently Graph Neural Networks for local weather forecasting—after developing CNN-LSTM and Vision Transformer systems for flood mapping and global monitoring. His work spans HPC, cloud pipelines, Google Earth Engine, and collaborations with NASA, IRRI and humanitarian and insurance stakeholders to turn satellite and reanalysis data into operational risk products. Holding a PhD from EPFL and recent postdoctoral experience at MIT, he blends theoretical modeling with practical engineering in Python and PyTorch. Outside academia he co-founded indie game studios, bringing a product mindset and creative prototyping skills to research teams. Based in the Bay Area, he focuses on improving forecast lead times and model interpretability for climate resilience applications.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Environmental Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Environmental Science at EPFLMatura, Economics and Law, Matura, Economics and Law at Gymnasium Alpenstrasse Biel
French, German, English, Italian
Github Skills (72)
gif-animation10
animated10
build-automation10
cpp10
prefab10
animation10
aseprite10
animate10
unity3d10
draw10
inspector10
pixel10
sprite10
pixel-art10
gif10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GieziJo/ScriptableObjectVariant
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
Unity Odin editor helper which permits to set a "SOVariant" attribute to a ScriptableObject and override, or not, certain fields (similar to prefab variants but for scriptable objects).
Contributions:4 releases, 98 commits, 8 PRs in 9 months
csharp-codeprefaboverridesimilarscriptable
GieziJo/cvpr23-earthvision-CNN-LSTM-Inundation
Apr 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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