Hi! I'm Roshan Taneja
Research Footprint
Humanitarian Impact
$300Kraised
550units deployed
30,000people served
Berkeley, CA
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Research Ledger
- NeurIPS 2024ML for Social Impact
- US Patent Pending63/703,232
- NHSJS Dec 2024Satellite ML Paper
GitHub Activity
last push 5h ago
Latest Blog Post
Using Sensors to implement "drop and walk away" on Dagster Pipelines
04-24-2026
The Problem Here's the setup. You have a folder. Files show up…
Featured Projects
Faces of Rainwater Harvesting →
Using machine learning to identify indigenous dwellings and improve water accessibility in underserved regions.
Competitive Programming →
Daily puzzle advent calendar and my solutions repository.
Bringing Water to the Maasai →
Deployed 550 rainwater harvesting units, reducing water collection time for 30,000 Maasai people. $300K raised.
ICESat-2 Iceberg Tracker →
Kalman-filter drift forecasting on calved icebergs using ICESat-2 photon returns. Live covariance ellipses.
My Blog →
Poetry, short fiction, and essays on tech and life.
Publications
Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Water Accessibility in Maasai Regions →
- 1 of 4 Winners — NeurIPS 2024 Machine Learning for Social Impact High School Track
- Presented at NeurIPS Convention 2024 in Vancouver
- US Patent Pending 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]
Impact of Rainwater Harvesting Units On Maasai Regions in Northern Tanzania →
- Published in National High School Journal of Science [Oct 2024]
- 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