Aparajithan Sampath

Aparajithan Sampath (Ajit) is a geospatial data scientist and systems engineer specializing in Lidar analytics, remote-sensing data quality, and decision-theoretic modeling for environmental risk mitigation. With over 15 years of technical leadership experience, he has developed scalable, cloud-native workflows for 3DEP lidar validation, hyperspectral/Earth Observation cross-calibration, flood-monitoring decision tools, and advanced machine-learning pipelines for point-cloud and imagery analysis. His work integrates open-source geospatial architectures, AI/ML automation, and uncertainty-aware analytics to bridge the gap between remote-sensing science and operational decision-making. Ajit holds a Masters in Engineering and Management  from MIT and a PhD in Geomatics from Purdue University,  and collaborates widely across academic, federal, and industry partners on next-generation geospatial intelligence and Earth-observation applications.