Denys Godwin

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Denys Godwin

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Education

Ph.D. in Geography (2024 - Present)
Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA
Expected May 2028

MS in Geographic Information Science (2022 - 2024)
Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA

BA in International Political Economics (2013 - 2018)
Beloit College, 700 College St. Beloit, WI
Dean’s List Fall 2014 – Fall 2017
Summa Cum Laude

Experience

Center for Geospatial Analytics, Clark University (May 2023 - Present)
Research Assistant
Building reusable python pipelines with STAC standards to query, preprocess, and package remote sensing data. Analyzing intermediate embeddings of AI models with statistical methods towards explainability. Evaluating performance of Geospatial Foundational Models on benchmark remote sensing tasks.
Adapting pretrained AI models to object detection and classification using remotely sensed data.
Building pipelines for AI processing of LiDAR, DEM, and multispectral imagery using PyTorch.
Collaborating with external NGOs and government agencies to improve land use land cover data.

Extractives@Clark, Clark University (Jan 2023 - Jan 2024)
Research Assistant
Implemented ground cover classification models to identify solar arrays in New England.
Evaluated workflows in QGIS, Google Earth Engine, and ArcGIS to apply classification models.
Produced analysis and visualizations to communicate results to a range of stakeholders.
Coordinated and publicized events featuring visiting speakers from international organizations.

Center for Neighborhood Technology (Feb 2018 - Sep 2019)
Research Intern
Used QGIS to create and visualize flood risk indices as part of neighborhood planning efforts
Built relationships with community representatives to market flood prevention initiatives
Researched housing and transit-oriented development to inform policy in Chicago

Beloit City Hall, Office of Housing and Community Development (Feb 2017 - Dec 2017)
GIS Intern
Geocoded, visualized, and analyzed data in ArcGIS on rent-to-own housing in Beloit
Presented results of research to community stakeholders and City Council members

Awards and Honors

  1. AGU Open Science Recognition Prize, 2025
  2. Travel Support from Clark University GSG to present at AAG Annual Meeting, 2025
  3. FARR RCN AI Readiness Research Award, Mapping Rooftop Solar Across New England, FARR RCN, 2024
  4. NASA Marshall Group Achievement Award, NASA, 2024
  5. Segal Education Award, City Year, 2014

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  1. Szwarcman, D., Roy, S., Fraccaro, P., Gíslason, Þ. E., Blumenstiel, B., Ghosal, R., De Oliveira, P. H., De Sousa Almeida, J. L., Sedona, R., Kang, Y., Chakraborty, S., Wang, S., Gomes, C., Kumar, A., Gaur, V., Truong, M., Godwin, D., Khallaghi, S., Lee, H., … Moreno, J. B. (2026). Prithvi-EO-2.0: A Versatile Multitemporal Foundation Model for Earth Observation Applications. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 64, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2025.3642610

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

  1. Godwin, D., Li, H., Cecil, M., & Alemohammad, H. (2024). Seeing through the clouds: Cloud gap imputation with Prithvi foundation model. 2nd ICLR Workshop on Machine Learning for Remote Sensing, Vienna, Austria.

  2. Nazeri, A., Godwin, D., Maria Panteleaki, A., Anagnostopoulos, I., Edidem, M. I., Li, R., & Shu, T. (2024). Exploration of TPU Architectures for the Optimized Transformer in Drainage Crossing Detection. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 4178–4187. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData62323.2024.10826077

Pre-Print Publications

  1. Jakubik, J., Roy, S., Phillips, C. E., Fraccaro, P., Godwin, D., Zadrozny, B., Szwarcman, D., Gomes, C., Nyirjesy, G., Edwards, B., Kimura, D., Simumba, N., Chu, L., Mukkavilli, S. K., Lambhate, D., Das, K., Bangalore, R., Oliveira, D., Muszynski, M., … Ramachandran, R. (2023). Foundation Models for Generalist Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (No. arXiv:2310.18660). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.18660

Open-Access Datasets

  1. Godwin, D., Li, H., & Alemohammad, H. (2024). Multi-Temporal Cloud Gap Imputation With HLS Data Across CONUS (Version v1.0) [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.11281740

Conference Presentations

  1. Godwin, D., Khallagi, S., Balogun, R., Yao, Y., Roy, S., Ramachandran, R., Alemohammad, H. (2025, December). GELOS: A Benchmark Dataset for Geospatial Exploration of Latent Observation Space [Poster presentation]. AGU Annual Meeting 2025, New Orleans, LA, USA.
  2. Godwin, D. (2024, March). A Homunculus of Place: Tactile Cartographies of Internal Worlds. AAG Annual Meeting 2025, Detroit, MI, USA.
  3. Godwin, D., Li, H., Cecil, M., & Alemohammad, H. (2023, December). Comparative Analysis of Vision Transformer and CGAN Models for Cloud Gap Filling in Time Series of Satellite Images. AGU Annual Meeting 2023, San Francisco, CA, USA.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

AGU, AAG

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