Sayantan Majumdar
Assistant Research Professor at University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolSayantan Majumdar is an Assistant Research Professor specializing in hydrologic remote sensing, geospatial data science, and applied machine learning, with 11 years of experience translating satellite and airborne data into actionable water-resource insights. He holds a PhD in Geological Engineering and has built cross-disciplinary tools—like AIWUM v2.0—for estimating irrigation and groundwater withdrawals used in USGS and NASA projects. His work spans academia, government, and industry, including internships at Meta and Planet where he integrated high-resolution imagery, LiDAR, and deep learning for reforestation monitoring and surface water mapping. Sayantan combines rigorous scientific computing and open-source geospatial software development with practical impact on land subsidence and irrigation-use estimation, and he teaches graduate students as adjunct faculty at UNR. Notably, his background in computer science and early compiler and security research gives him a rare blend of systems-level thinking and domain expertise in hydrology.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), KolkataDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Geological/Geophysical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Geological/Geophysical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyHigher Secondary Mathematics and Computer Science, Higher Secondary Mathematics and Computer Science at Springdale High SchoolMSc Geo-information Science and Earth Observation with Specialisation in Geoinformatics, MSc Geo-information Science and Earth Observation with Specialisation in Geoinformatics at Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente
English, Bengali, Hindi, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
openpgp10
authenticity10
rsa9
digital-signature9
signature9
mozilla9
android9
insar7
llvm-ir6
llvm6
sar5
carbon-emissions4
snap4
earth-observation4
sentinel4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
montimaj/SARSnow
Jul 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:52 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 2 months
montimaj/PolInSnow
Jan 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:82 commits, 28 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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