Samuel Elkind Email & Phone Number

Remote, Usa

• Conferred with researchers from the SCAR GeoMAP project to create and maintain end-user documentation website.https://geomap.readthedocs.io• Investigated bias in congressional committee testimony through sentiment analysis of 2000 pages of transcripts for the University of Michigan Institute of Social Research.• Conceived a novel approach to automated classification of Polar satellite imagery leveraging deep learning segmentation models.https://github.com/selkind/LaSeRo• Achieved 94.7% accuracy in image classification of plant seedlings via supervised and unsupervised machine learning approaches.https://renahlee.github.io/50shadesofgreen/

Centennial, Co

• Slashed the time support staff spent on manual data entry tasks by 10 hours per week with data transform and cleaning tools.• Streamlined the client subscription process by creating a client account dashboard for the sales team.• Led efforts to improve customer experience by creating company-wide product development procedures.• Explored third-party integrations with external web services via RESTful APIs.

14 E Cache La Poudre St, Colorado Springs, Co, 80903

• Instructed students and managed logistics during laboratory exercises and field trips• Assisted faculty research• Mentored and tutored students

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Assisted and instructed students during lab exercises• Advised faculty and student researchers on spatial analysis methodology• Investigated new GIS software and spatial analysis methods to expand lab capabilities

Otago & Southland, New Zealand

•Accelerated Polar research by contributing to the development of a standardized, continent-scale, geological data framework for Antarctica (https://www.scar.org/science/geomap/geomap).•Managed a Geoscience Markup Language-compliant geodatabase(http://www.geosciml.org).•Designed a chronostratigraphic legend for a geologic map of Western Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Geology/Earth Science, General

High School