Biography

Alex Stoken is a data scientist in the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit (ESRS) specializing in machine learning and computer vision. His primary focus is on using these techniques to augment the astronaut photography archive with additional information for researchers and the general public. Alex is a writer on the Earth Observatory writing team, a liaison to university cataloging partners, and the point of contact for ESRS’s citizen science projects, Feature Hunter and Image Detective. In addition to his astronaut photography work, Alex collaborates with groups across JSC on projects that leverage machine learning.