3/4/26 Bi Weekly Meeting at 10 AM CT

[tjm0042]

Hi Geo-AI Working Group,

Thrilled for our next talk this Wednesday. We will be joined by folks from Erin Trochim and Simon Ilyushchenko on Cooperative Geospatial Attention: Creating New Spaces for the Neighborhood Problem

Erin Trochim is a research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, working as a geospatial AI synthesizer, focusing on the boundary between observational systems and the messy human world they try to describe. She studied geography, hydrology, and remote sensing, earning a PhD from UAF and later an EMBA — a combination that reflects her ongoing interest in bridging science and systems. She's based at the Institute of Northern Engineering, with affiliations in Earth System Science, Natural Resources Management, and the Center for Arctic Security and Resilience. A Google Developer Expert for Google Earth Engine and a 2025 Google Research Scholar, she has spent years interrogating what satellite imagery can and cannot tell us about the world. That frustration with observational limits led her to ask harder questions about how geospatial AI should work, and for whom. You can find her work at github.com/edtrochim.

Simon Ilyushchenko is a software engineer, but really a climate reliability engineer at Google, based in Mountain View, California. He studied physics, math, and computer science until they added up to an M.Sc. degree from Moscow State University. Before Google, he worked as a programmer and system administrator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He joined Google as a SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) in 2006, but then transferred to the Earth Engine team when it formed in 2009, becoming the EE Data tech lead. Recently he has also been working on geospatial agents with the Earth AI team at Google Research. His main professional interest is improving tools for collective decision making. He has a work blog at https://exopixelist.substack.com/ and an art blog at https://simonf.substack.com/

Excited for this talk. See you all there!!!

Tim

[Nicholas Musau]

Hi Tim,

I missed this session.. will you sharing the presentation or recording with us? 

I'll appreciate.

Best,

Nicholas 

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[Biplov Bhandari]

Hi everyone

I've included Erin and Simon's presentation on our YouTube channel. Video link: https://youtu.be/5jSCG79nv38

Best
Geo-AI WG