Researcher
Earlier this March I had the honor to receive the Best Poster Award for the event that took place at the end of November 2022, JPL Postdoc Research Day. There were 5 categories and I was awarded for the Earth Science: Water, Land, Biome, and Carbon Cycle category. I presented my work titled “Amazon forest structure from space”. Photos by …
On January 8th, 2019, I had the honor to be awarded Romania’s Best Student in Europe, graduate level, during an event organized by the League of Romanian Students Abroad. The LRSA is one of the biggest Romanian NGO outside its borders and organizes every year an event where the achievements from the previous academic year are highlighted. Considering the size …
My current and first postdoctoral project I am working on, together with a great team, is now featured in Medium and Planet Pulse. We are using very high resolution Planet images in combination with airborne LiDAR data over large areas of Peru to estimate forest structural characteristics and aboveground carbon stocks. Taking advantage of high spatial and temporal resolutions of …
Extremely happy to see that the work where I was using the newly integrated deep learning algorithms in eCognition (Trimble Geospatial) was featured as a head line for Geo International magazine for March-April 2019. Briefly, we were using a simple CNN architecture to detect citrus trees in a highly complex and managed citrus orchard in California. We reached more than …