Professor of Earth System Science and Deputy Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University

Joined November 2012
Pre-training a vision transformer (ViT) for each large dataset/domain is becoming too expensive...💰 We introduce 🔥ExPLoRA🔥, to extend unsupervised pre-training for ViTs on new domains and create foundation models using very few parameters! arxiv.org/abs/2406.10973 1/8
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Earlier this week Atlas AI was honored with one of @googlecloud 's most significant recognitions -- 2024 Partner of the Year in the category of Industry Sustainability Solutions. Watch our CEO @AbeTarapani's acceptance speech below. #GoogleCloudPartnerAwards @gcloudpartners
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Going to #AGU23? If so here's a short list of some great talks and posters to check out
#AGU23 is just around the corner, and we're thrilled to be convening and presenting fascinating applications of remote sensing in agriculture and the environment. Come check us out!@FoodSecurity_SU
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Can you give ChatGPT a location and ask it to predict average income, population density, or home value? 😮 …We present GeoLLM, a powerful method for extracting geospatial knowledge from LLMs! Even rivals satellite imagery for prediction tasks 🔥 arxiv.org/abs/2310.06213 1/6
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🌾 Apply for our Remote Sensing for Economic Development Fellowship! We're looking for a postdoc w/ skills in analyzing satellite imagery to develop & validate novel applications targeted at low-income economies. Proposals due 7/31. Learn more & apply ➡️ stanford.io/3pnTdWA
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Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment @FoodSecurity_SU now accepting applications for our postdoc fellowship. Open to candidates across social + natural sciences. Please apply! (or at least RT) @FSIStanford @StanfordWoods fse.fsi.stanford.edu/fse-pos…
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Stanford welcomes United Nations @WFPChief David Beasley for an Oct. 1 conversation with @Ertharin1 about 21st c. humanitarian aid challenges and solutions. His talk is open to the public. Learn more and RSVP: bit.ly/2kOUMLQ
We're hiring across the board at AtlasAI: atlasai.co/careers-atlasai.h… We're looking for great engineers, product developers, and sales folks who want to work for a tech company whose whole purpose is to do good in the world. We pay market rates :) Please RT!
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The tyranny of national averages: link.medium.com/22hRs5bsxY Blog post with our excellent summer intern @ApoorvaRed. We tend to measure poverty at the national level but this hides huge subnational variation. New methods and data are starting to allow us to do better.
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"Being able to take risks and learn quickly are two of [agriculture's] most critical needs. And both of these require good data." Read FSE Dir. @DavidBLobell's new op-ed in @sciam on the importance of increasing agricultural data around the world. bit.ly/2Gwaq72
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#HappeningNow : Signing MoU with @atlasai_co to utilise #satellite data, machine learning & predictive analytics for agriculture development.
Come to our #AAAI19 Oral Wed 11:30am @ Coral 2 🎙️Tile2Vec: Unsupervised Representation Learning for Spatially Distributed Data 🗺️ermongroup.github.io/blog/ti… 🗺️Without any labeled data, performance comparable to supervised CNNs trained on 50k+ labels for land cover classification task
Check out new research from @DavidBLobell, @GeorgeAzzari & team "Satellite mapping of tillage practices in the North Central US region from 2005 to 2016" via @sciencedirect bit.ly/2RwzGgD
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Can satellites deliver accurate measures of crop yields in smallholder farming systems? @DavidBLobell weighs in and references newly published research from an @FoodSecurity_SU & @WorldBank collaboration. bit.ly/2J3k1S1
Refusing to acknowledge climate change will leave us unprepared, Noah Diffenbaugh says. stanford.io/2xslT0Q #HurricaneHarvey
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Withdrawing from Paris agreement could cost the US economy $8 trillion g-feed.com/2017/06/the-cost-…
New g-feed post "Are the curious trends in despair and diets related?" bit.ly/2pkNZH5.
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