Roshan
Taneja

researcher / builder — berkeley, ca

deployed 500 rainwater harvesting units with the Maasai of Northern Tanzania — 30,000 people served
forecasting iceberg drift in the Labrador Sea with Kalman filters
redistricting at the UC Berkeley Statewide Database
resume.pdf — one page

01 / Now

02 / Research

Site	Coordinates	What
Arusha, TZ	-2.00, 35.50	Rainwater for the Maasai — Sentinel-2 · Northern Tanzania
Labrador Sea	55.00, -52.00	Calving in the Labrador Sea — ICESat-2 · 55–65°N
Berkeley, CA	37.87, -122.26	Statewide Database — California redistricting data infrastructure

03 / Projects featured — all projects

Name	One line
DrawMyCA	deck.gl redistricting tool rendering 102,000 census blocks in one WebGL layer, with Pan/Box/Lasso/Erase selection on a custom CPU geometry engine. Built at the Statewide Database for the 2030 census cycle.
Faces of Rainwater Harvesting	Using machine learning to identify indigenous dwellings and improve water accessibility in underserved regions.
Bringing Water to the Maasai	Deployed 500 rainwater harvesting units, reducing water collection time for 30,000 Maasai people. $300K raised. 2024 UN SDG #6 Award.
Cal STAR Avionics	ESP32-S3 board firmware, packed-binary UDP wire protocol, and a C++/TypeScript ground DAQ pipeline for liquid-engine hotfires across 13 networked boards.
ICESat-2 Iceberg Tracker	Kalman-filter drift forecasting on calved icebergs using ICESat-2 photon returns. Live covariance ellipses.
Competitive Programming	Daily puzzle advent calendar and my solutions repository.
My Blog	Poetry, short fiction, and essays on tech and life.

04 / Publications

Poster presentation at the AICC workshop, eurIPS 2025 — Copenhagen, Denmark
Satellite ML for rainwater harvesting unit placement in Maasai regions of Northern Tanzania

1 of 4 Winners — NeurIPS 2024 Machine Learning for Social Impact High School Track; selected from global submissions, 14,000 attendees
Presented at NeurIPS Convention 2024 in Vancouver
Provisional Patent (Approved) — US Patent Application 63/703,232 "Object Detection in Satellite Imagery for Optimising Rainwater Unit Placement"
Sole High-school Keynote Presenter at ML4EO 2024, Univ. of Exeter, UK
Published in National High School Journal of Science [Dec 2024]

Published in National High School Journal of Science [Oct 2024]
2024 United Nations SDG #6 Award and Children's Peace Prize nomination (Maji Wells water programs)
Presidential Volunteer Service Award — Gold Medal [300+ Hours]
Presented at MDCON23 [Multi-District East-Africa Convention] Audience of 600+ delegates
Melvin Jones Humanitarian Service Award

05 / Writing newest first

06 / Contact

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