Samira is a product engineer for imagery analytics on the ArcGIS Living Atlas team at Esri, where she combines her passion for AI and remote sensing, to advance the Science of Where. With a PhD in oceanography from Florida State University and postdoctoral experience at UC Santa Barbara, she specializes in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery analysis. Her work tackles environmental challenges, including modeling oil slick dynamics and using deep learning to map supraglacial rivers on Greenland’s Ice Sheet.