Responsible Gen-AI for NASA Earthdata 2026

I am a Technical Program Manager with the UW Scientific Software Engineering Center at the eScience Institute, where I develop open-source infrastructure to support research across disciplines. My background includes data analysis on community violence intervention programs at Northwestern University, along with a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Grinnell College. Outside of work, I enjoy pickup sports, cooking, and cheering on Bay Area teams and Leeds United.

Anthony is leading the eScience Institute's Hackweek-as-a-Service program. He is an advocate for open, inclusive and collaborative science. He has experience teaching GIS and has been the lead organizer for multiple earth-science themed hackweeks. His background is in cryospheric science and remote sensing.

I am a Research Software Engineer at the University of Washington with a strong focus in designing, developing, and maintaining scientific data analysis systems. I am a contributor to various open source software. I learning new technologies and apply them in my work.

Ellie is the AI/GPU lead at the SDSS Center for Computation, working on frictionless workflows for distributing scientific data and deep compute across large-scale machines on-premise and in the cloud. Ellie is passionate about accessible open science and reproducibility, and has a background at the intersection of statistics, computer vision, and they cryosphere.

Jessica is a glaciologist, remote sensing specialist, open science advocate and educator, collaborative developer, open-source software contributor and maintainer, and community manager. She enjoys weaving her many roles together to work with others to build software that makes it easier for everyone to access and manipulate data, and she's especially fond of detecting icebergs.

Joe is a research scientist at Boise State University with a focus on physical based snow modeling development and operational application. He has a background in software development and would love to see more software development best practices, open source software, and open science principles being adapted throughout the research community.

JP is a software developer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center outside of Washington DC. He led the flight software effort for ICESat-2/ATLAS, and is now the software development lead for SlideRule.

Mark is the Program Manager for Community Engagement at the eScience Institute. His career has been spent with higher education and nonprofit organizations, most recently at the University of California, Santa Cruz as the Associate Director of Marketing, Events, and Technology for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Mark graduated from Southern Cross University (1999) with a BA in Communications and Media Production.

Mike is a software engineer working on conservation-focused applications at Ai2, Skylight and OlmoEarth, and increasingly on agents that support these applications.

Dr. Rajat Shinde is a Computer Scientist with the NASA Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI) and a researcher at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. His work focuses on data-centric AI, machine learning for Earth observation, and open data infrastructure. He contributes to projects involving above-ground biomass monitoring and foundation models for geoscience, and leads the development of GeoCroissant, a metadata standard for geospatial ML datasets. Rajat also co-chairs the Earth-2 Working Group within IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), working on AI models for digital twins. Previously, Rajat has served as a Vice President of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and was awarded the Open Data Institute (ODI) fellowship, supporting open standards and reproducibility in data science.

Scott is a research scientist and data science fellow at the University of Washington. His research is focused on applications of synthetic aperture radar to understand geophysical processes. Scott is excited about the potential for open source software and Cloud computing to enable more open and reproducible science.

My work aims to improve our understanding of glacier and ocean interactions in Greenland and Antarctica. A lot of my work focuses on building new applications and improving existing ones for remote sensing in polar regions, especially for thermal infrared (heat) imagery. I am a Co-Founder and Lead Scientist for the CryoCloud cloud-computing community and platform, and help to advance scientific capabilities in open-source software development and open science.