Bio

Adithi R. Upadhya is a Geoinformatics graduate with an interdisciplinary research background. Enthusiastic R, C++ and Python developer. Worked on mobile monitoring of air quality in Bangalore. Current role: Geospatial Data Analyst at ILK Labs. Interested in machine learning, artificial intelligence, environmental issues and spatial science.

Education

Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment Education and Research | Pune, India

M.Sc Geoinformatics | 2016 - 2018

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning | Anantapur, India

B.Sc in Physics | 2013 - 2016

Experience

ILK Labs | Geospatial Data Analyst | October 2018 - Present

Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research | Analyst and Instructor | 2021 - Present

Asian Nature Conservation Foundation | GIS Consultant | 2020 - 2021

ILK Labs, New York Times | Consultant | 2019

National Center for Polar and Ocean Research | Intern | 2018

Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment Education and Research, WAi Technologies | Master Thesis and Intern | 2017

Volunteer and Non-Profit Experience

Peer reviewer for Journal of Open-Source Software

Moderating and facilitating Incubator on Strategies to build a strong Asian R community at useR! 2021

Founder and Co-organiser of R-Ladies Bangalore

Volunteer of Bangpypers (Bangalore Python users’ group) and PyCon India 2021

Global organising team for Sponsorship, Program and Content team and part of Code of Conduct Response team for the useR! 2021

Facilitator of Asian Cohort of R4DS book club

Co-hosted a live Q and A session - Teaching for rstudio::global(2021), chair for Keynote at useR! 2021

Software packages

Built polluchek | Journal of Open Source Software | 2021

Maintenance of ropenaq | rOpenSci | 2021

Built mmaqshiny | CRAN, Journal of Open Source Software | 2020

Awards and Honors

rstudio::global(2021) Diversity Scholar | 2021

R@IISA Conference Travel Award | 2019

Primer in Methods and Ecological Research (PRiMER) Sponsored by ILK Labs | 2019

For undergraduate degree at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning received Gold Medal | 2016

Indian Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellowship Program | 2015