Pratyush Tripathy
Doctoral Student at UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolPratyush Tripathy is a doctoral student in Geography at UC Santa Barbara with nine years of applied experience building large-scale geospatial processing pipelines and ML workflows to study the causal impacts of floods on poverty. He combines remote sensing, geospatial data, and AI to fill critical data gaps that enable analyses otherwise infeasible, and has translated that work into widely used open-source tools—most notably pyrsgis, a Python package with over 190,000 downloads. Before his PhD he led geospatial analysis at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements across roles from trainee to senior associate, advising on projects that bridge research and policy. Based in Santa Barbara, he pairs rigorous academic methods with production-grade engineering, and—when time allows—shares reproducible code and technical writing to help others adopt scalable spatial analytics.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Integrated Master of Technology, Geoinformatics, Integrated Master of Technology, Geoinformatics at Central University of JharkhandDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography at UC Santa Barbara
Stackoverflow
121reputation
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Github Skills (100)
forge10
continuity10
census10
morphology10
morphological-analysis10
geotiff10
satellite-imagery10
geopackage10
rasterio9
wps9
sphinx-doc9
python9
gdal9
mkdocs9
geospatial-analysis9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PratyushTripathy/global_flood_mapper
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:129 commits, 121 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 3 months
PratyushTripathy/python_gdal_automated_windows
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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