🚀 We’re strengthening our AI team! 👋 Say hi to Enrique and Jacob who join us to build up our AI team. They bring a wealth of experience working across climate and weather modelling, LLMs and satellite imagery analytics. They’re joining our team to help make sure VIDA provides the best climate and environmental risk datasets and intuitive analytics to our users. ✨ Enrique Cornejo started out as a conservation biologist in Morocco before moving to data science and becoming a machine learning engineer. He was a co-author of research for crucial climate modeling for the World Resources Institute. This work translates climate data into a format accessible to anyone. (Check out: “Making Climate Data Accessible: Methods for Producing NEX-GDDP and LOCA Downscaled Climate Indicators”) He loves cats AND dogs (try profiling that!), was a guitarist in a band, and plays Twilight Imperium for a marathon 10 hours every year on his birthday! Also, Enrique once worked on an uninhabited island. (Which of course was then no longer uninhabited and he didn’t go there on his birthday.) 🏝️ ✨Jacob Bieker, is from Oregon and lives in London. His adventurous spirit first took him to Denmark, where he spent a year studying astronomy and computer science. Following his family tradition, he later worked at NASA, spent summers in Germany and completed his Master’s in the Netherlands. Ever the data lover, he says he traveled through 52% of Europe in one year. (Rounded and by number of countries? Or more exact and by population or geography? Or by breweries and vineyards? Leave your thoughts in the comments!) 🌍 With his experience in geospatial data and machine learning, Jacob will help us build ever more and better climate and ESG data layers for VIDA.
Welcome, Enrique and Jacob!
Enhorabuena Kike!
Congrats, Enrique Cornejo ! 🛰️
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1moHappy to have you on board! 😍