Sergio Marconi
Geospatial Machine Learning Scientist
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSergio Marconi is a Geospatial Machine Learning Scientist and postdoctoral researcher with a decade of experience applying AI, big dataanalytics, and remote sensing to cross-scale terrestrial ecology problems. He develops and deploys machine and deep learning models that map species, chemical traits, and ecosystem structure at the scale of millions of individual plants using airborne hyperspectral, LiDAR, and multispectral data. His work spans hierarchical Bayesian modeling, semi‑supervised detection algorithms and HPC/cloud-enabled pipelines, and he has translated that research into applied roles in industry as Principal Remote Sensing Scientist and geospatial engineer. Sergio blends rigorous ecosystem process modeling (from a PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology and prior forest carbon model development) with hands-on computational engineering, enabling predictions of how global change will reshape plant functional traits and distributions. Based in Raleigh, NC, he also has a track record of producing benchmark datasets and organizing data science competitions to advance remote sensing reproducibility. An unexpected through-line in his career is deep familiarity with both low-level ecosystem models in C and state-of-the-art AI workflows, giving him rare fluency across theory, code, and large-scale geospatial data.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. in Forest and Environment, Forest and Environment Sciences, 110/110 magna cum laude, B.Sc. in Forest and Environment, Forest and Environment Sciences, 110/110 magna cum laude at University of TusciaMaster's degree, Forest and Environmental Sciences, 110/110 cum Laude, Master's degree, Forest and Environmental Sciences, 110/110 cum Laude at Università degli Studi della TusciaDiploma di Maturità Scientifica, 100/100, Diploma di Maturità Scientifica, 100/100 at Liceo Scientifico Galileo Galilei (Civitavecchia, RM)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Interdisciplinary Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Interdisciplinary Ecology at University of Florida
English
Github Skills (74)
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demography8
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biology8
ecology7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
UFBI2018/UFBI2018.github.io
Feb 2018 - Dec 2020
workshop's website
Contributions:18 PRs, 163 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
workshop
MarconiS/Estimating-individual-level-plant-traits-at-scale
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1 release, 104 commits, 102 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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