Ana M. Tárano, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Stanford, Ca, Us

Tempe, Az, Us

Advancing geospatial machine learning for food security applications in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI). My research practice is rooted in culture, devoted to social-ecological justice, and emergent from a design thinking ethos.

Coral Gables, Fl, Us

Applying computational tools and machine learning algorithms for shallow-marine habitat mapping from remotely sensed multispectral imagery.

Stanford, California, Us

Provided machine learning, technical and human-computer interaction leadership for Being, a conversational AI chatbot who is a poet and educator with human-centered traits that users engage through a microphone, speakers, and screen from a Unity game app.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Spring CycleStarted off as a data engineer but pivoted within the first 3 weeks to a developer role to ensure the success of the project. Spearheaded the full-stack development of the income and splash pages for a universal basic income app: Social Income.

Stanford, Ca, Us

· Generated a synthetic but realistic physics-based dataset to overcome a limited quantity of real labeleddata since this was the first time classification, regression, or clustering approaches were applied.· Designed, built, and tested end-to-end data pipelines, including combinations of pre-processing algorithms with spatial algorithms, optimization, supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods, and evaluated that the most accurate and generalizable methods used scaled and logarithmically transformed features with deep neural networks and random forest regression.· Derived 3D true velocities of detected parent meteoroids using interferometry (an imaging radar technique) to reproduce geospatial trajectories and compared angles of radar beam, detections, and Earth’s magnetic fields to investigate plasma instability hypotheses behind unexpected detections.· Implemented a detection algorithm from radar SNR returns using signal and image processing that facilitated statistical studies of a large dataset.

Moffett Field, California, Us

Characterizing asteroid impact risk through better characterization of asteroid parameters and atmosphere entry modeling with machine learning.

Alexandria, Va, Us

During my time as a volunteer manager and director of people for SFF, I reinforced my intuition that people need to feel valued in order for their best contributions to arise. I believe that a community is broken if members do not feel like their work or ideas are valuable and worth being vocal about. Before I became Director of People for the organization, there was no formal culture, application, and interviewing process for the volunteers so I had the wonderful opportunity to build all my ideas from scratch.

Alexandria, Va, Us

Alexandria, Va, Us

Volunteer Manager 2015Volunteer Manager and Social Media Manager 2014Assistant Volunteer Manager 2013General Volunteer 2012Press Relations Assistant 2011

Stanford, Ca, Us

Led a group of thirty students to develop software, electrical and mechanical hardware, and control systems for a 2U CubeSat within an international consortium: QB50. Met schedules and set milestones.

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Stanford, Ca, Us

Stanford, Ca, Us

Stanford, Ca, Us

Stanford, Ca, Us

Stanford, Ca, Us

Stanford, Ca, Us

Also designed and implemented website page to promote the series.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Aeronautics And Astronautics

Master Of Science (M.S.), Aeronautics And Astronautics

B.S., Aeronautics And Astronautics Engineering