Rudiger Gens
Engineering Specialist at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
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Top SchoolRudiger Gens is an Engineering Specialist and Supervisor at the Alaska Satellite Facility with over two decades of hands-on experience in SAR and InSAR processing, satellite data products, and remote sensing software development. He holds a PhD in Engineering and an M.Sc. in Surveying and Mapping from Leibniz Universität Hannover, plus an MBA in General Management, blending deep technical expertise with strategic leadership. At ASF he has built tools to make SAR data more accessible, supported a large international user community, and applied satellite observations to advance understanding of rapidly changing Arctic landscapes. He teaches SAR/InSAR principles as cooperating faculty at UAF and regularly delivers customized training and conference workshops, translating research into practical skills for practitioners. A senior IEEE GRSS member, he combines research, operational product development, and user-focused engineering—often working at the intersection of metadata, automated processing, and applied geoscience.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), General Management, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), General Management at University of Alaska FairbanksDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Engineering at Leibniz Universität Hannover
English, German
Github Skills (8)
common-library10
resharper10
cobol9
metadata5
sar5
uid5
metadata-management4
gamma4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rudigens/rudigens.github.io
Mar 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
rudigens/ASF_MapReady
Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:34 PRs, 67 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 4 months
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