News Isabella Hinks

I will be giving a talk at the AGU Fall Meeting 2023 on Monday, December 11 at 5:21-5:30pm PST

I passed my preliminary oral exam and have been admitted to candidacy!

I passed my preliminary written exam!

My deep learning-based research on smallholder field delineation was featured in an NC State University News article

I won the Gladys West Award at the Center for Geospatial Analytics' fourth annual CGA Awards

I gave an oral presentation at AGU '22, entitled, 'Monitoring Smallholder Agriculture at Scale with Convolutional Networks and Data Augmentation'

I co-organized GIS Week at NC State with fellow students, Caitlin Haedrich and Andrew Shannon, and taught a workshop on open-source geospatial science software

Dr. Josh Gray presented a poster about our computationally-intensive smallholder agriculture research at the '21-'22 NASA LCLUC Science Team Meeting and Silver Jubilee Celebration

I began giving guest lectures about computer science, remote sensing, agriculture, and climate change for Skype a Scientist

I became the Co-President of the Geospatial Graduate Student Organization at NC State University

I became a member of the Center for Geospatial Analytics' Development Committee

I became a member of the College of Natural Resources' Graduate Student DEI Coalition

I mentored female and non-binary students through their programming projects at Pearl Hacks '22

I wrote a guest post about efficiently monitoring small farms from space for the Center for Geospatial Analytics

I gave an oral presentation at AGU '21, entitled, 'Monitoring Crop Development in Smallholder Farms Using Remotely Sensed Time Series Data Augmentation'

I guest lectured for Dr. Josh Gray's Earth from Space (ES 113) and Geospatial Data Mining (GIS 713) courses

I became a Graduate Career Mentor for NC State University's College of Natural Resources

I won a the Center for Geospatial Analytics' Travel Award to partially fund my expenses to present at AGU '21

I taught the Google Earth Engine portion of a workshop on remote sensing for the CATALYST program for disabled high schoolers

I mentored female and non-binary students through their programming projects at Pearl Hacks '21

I taught a workshop for the NC Math and Science Education Network's STEM Day for K-12 students

I became a Mentor for Rewriting the Code

I served as a Learning Assistant and helped Dr. Brian White pilot his course, Data Science for Earth (COMP 590), at UNC Chapel Hill

I became a Head Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for COMP 110 at UNC Chapel Hill

I was accepted into the Ph.D. in Geospatial Analytics program at NC State University

A tech startup I co-founded, Acta Solutions (formerly demos), was awarded the Robert E. Bryan Fellowship

I co-wrote a piece about the importance of outreach to boost diversity in computer science for Rewriting the Code

I became a Teaching Assistant for Girls Who Code at UNC Chapel Hill

I became an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Kris Jordan's Intro to Programming (COMP 110) courses at UNC Chapel Hill

I was awarded the Carolina Scholarship, a merit-based scholarship at UNC Chapel Hill