Mirza Waleed

Lead GeoAI Engineer & Researcher | Hong Kong Baptist University

Hong Kong Baptist University • Vollzeit

Aug 2022 - Present • 3 yrs 9 mos

Architected planetary-scale environmental intelligence systems, bridging the gap between scientific research and production deployment. - Product Owner (GFSM): Led the engineering of the "Global Flood Susceptibility Map," processing multi-petabyte Sentinel/Landsat archives. - Cloud Architecture: Designed scalable Python/GEE pipelines for real-time high-resolution risk scoring. - Advanced ML: Implemented Deep Learning (CNNs, Unet) for object detection, land cover classification, and super resolution applications for hydrology.

HPC Geospatial Engineer (Supercomputing & Big Data) | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) • Vollzeit

Aug 2024 - Feb 2025 • 6 mos

Leveraged High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure to model planetary-scale climate risk, processing multi-petabyte datasets that exceed standard cloud capabilities. - Supercomputing: Deployed geospatial workloads on the "Shaheen" supercomputer (Cray XC40) for massive parallel processing of earth observation data. - Global Risk Modeling: Refined the "Global Flood Susceptibility Map" (GFSM) using model-data fusion techniques to improve accuracy in data-scarce regions. - Urban Climate Analytics: Quantified heat stress and livability metrics for "Giga-Project" scale developments.