Rose Rustowicz
Senior Geospatial Data Scientist
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRose Rustowicz is a Senior Geospatial Data Scientist with 11 years of experience applying machine learning and deep learning to satellite imagery for sustainability and agriculture. She has led production-ready products for historical deforestation detection and developed multi-sensor deep learning solutions for crop and coffee classification using optical, SAR, and InSAR data. At Descartes Labs she combined hands-on model development with user-facing education—creating tutorials, workshops, and platform demos that enabled researchers and practitioners to adopt geospatial DL workflows. Her background spans academia and industry, including Stanford research on smallholder crop classification and early SAR segmentation work at Planet, giving her both theoretical and practical depth. Based in Longmont, Colorado, Rose is motivated by closing knowledge gaps about the Earth and translating remote sensing advances into measurable environmental impact. An understated strength is her track record mentoring students and translating research prototypes into operational tools used for global sustainability monitoring.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of OtagoBachelor of Science (B.S.) Imaging Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.) Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (29)
type-mapping10
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
segmentation7
visual-recognition7
computer-vision6
face-recognition6
face-detection6
object-detection5
javascript5
temporal4
journal4
typescript4
amazon-s34
gis3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
roserustowicz/crop-type-mapping
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
Crop type mapping of small holder farms in Tanzania, Ghana, and South Sudan
Contributions:497 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 4 years 2 months
type-mappingcropsouthmappingghana
roserustowicz/MTLCC
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Multi-temporal land cover classification. Source code and evaluation of IJGI 2018 journal publication
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
journalevaluationland-covermachine-learningtemporal
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