Supratim Banik is a geospatial researcher and product engineer based in London with six years of professional experience applying GeoAI, spatial statistics, and agent-based modeling to urban planning and smart cities. He has blended academic training from UCL, UPenn and IIT Kharagpur with product work at Esri, where he contributed data science notebooks for the widely used ArcGIS Python API and led spatial analyses such as NYC Airbnb growth and temperature forecasting. Comfortable across R, Python, JavaScript and GIS stacks (ArcGIS, QGIS, Leaflet), he builds end-to-end workflows from data ingestion and privacy-conscious PII handling to model development and visualization. His background spans consultancy for public agencies and research fellowships, giving him a pragmatic sense of policy and deployment constraints in city-scale projects. Notably, he pairs classical spatial interaction and network modeling with modern computer vision and LLM toolchains to create actionable insights for urban decision-making.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS Spatial Analytics, MS Spatial Analytics at University of Pennsylvania
B.Arch Architecture, B.Arch Architecture at Jadavpur University
MCP City Planning, MCP City Planning at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Documentation and samples for ArcGIS API for Python
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Contributions:34 reviews, 5 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Supratim handled PII (Personally Identifiable Information) across multiple commits. The primary focus of the user's work involved analyzing Airbnb properties, specifically in New York City, and identifying factors influencing their growth and spatial distribution. This included data analysis, model building, and result visualization using Jupyter notebooks. The user also worked on a temperature forecast using time series data.
Documentation and samples for ArcGIS API for Python
Contributions:80 pushes, 21 branches in 5 years 7 months
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