Mark Hannel is a Senior Applied Scientist with 13 years of experience applying physics, mathematics, and computer vision to large-scale machine learning problems. He has led production-ready remote sensing projects that produced the world’s first global 10-meter land use and land cover maps and operationalized models on Azure with MLflow, Batch, and Blob storage. At Impact Observatory he improved regional accuracy through active learning and trained segmentation models on six-band satellite imagery to exceed 85% overall accuracy, and he now brings that applied ML expertise to Etsy. His background as a NYU physics PhD who replaced heuristic image pipelines with CNNs and 1000x faster estimators gives him uncommon depth in both research and engineering. He excels at turning complex geospatial science into scalable, impactful products and often bridges domain science, model development, and cloud deployment.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at New York University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at Purdue University
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