Summary
Roberta Ravanelli is a geomatics and remote sensing specialist with 12 years of academic and research experience, currently teaching topography, 3D data acquisition, and geospatial data collection at the University of Liège. Her work spans geospatial big data analysis for long-term environmental monitoring and 3D reconstruction across scales, combining computer vision techniques with Earth observation to estimate heights and albedo from open satellite data. She has held postdoctoral and visiting positions at institutions including NASA JPL, KTH Digital Futures, KU Leuven and Sapienza, where she translated research into teaching across multiple environmental and engineering programs. A practical coder and open-source contributor since Google Summer of Code, she has integrated structured-light 3D modeling into OpenCV and developed LiDAR segmentation tools for Opticks, reflecting a rare blend of hands-on algorithm implementation and field-scale geospatial analysis.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Infrastructures and Transport, Ph.D. Infrastructures and Transport at Sapienza Università di Roma
Scientific High School Diploma (bilingual experimentation), Scientific High School Diploma (bilingual experimentation) at Scientific High School C. Cavour, Rome
Italian, French, English