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