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Ramanakumar Sankar
@rsankar.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley. Planetary scientist trying to figure out rain and snow on other planets. Hiking and road trip enthusiast. Bakes at 1am to destress.
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Ramanakumar Sankar @rsankar.bsky.social · Dec 9
Specifically, we found that using a semi-supervised neural network, we explored images where the volunteers were confused about the class of atmospheric phenomenon. We could use the information learnt by the model to disentangle the features in the image and relate them with specific classes.
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Ramanakumar Sankar @rsankar.bsky.social · Dec 9
We have a new paper published today: doi.org/10.5334/cstp...

We tried to use a neural network classifier on the Jovian Vortex Hunter citizen science project to understand the diversity in volunteer responses for the same types of atmospheric features (like vortices or FFRs).
Understanding Confusion: A Case Study of Training a Machine Model to Predict and Interpret Consensus From Volunteer Labels | Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice (CSTP) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed publication focused on the global field of citizen science and other participatory sciences. It provides a venue to...
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Ramanakumar Sankar @rsankar.bsky.social · Nov 4
Our new paper on the results from Jovian Vortex Hunter has been featured on AAS Nova! Thanks for the shout-out, Kerry!
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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · Nov 4
Citizen scientists have identified 7,000 swirling vortices on Jupiter, leading to some surprising findings. aasnova.org/2024/11/04/f... 🔭🧪
Featured Image: Finding Swirls on Jupiter - AAS Nova
Citizen scientists have identified 7,000 swirling vortices on Jupiter, leading to some surprising results.
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Ramanakumar Sankar @rsankar.bsky.social · Sep 19
New paper alert!

Our paper from the Jovian Vortex Hunter citizen science project is out now on PSJ: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3.... We had over 5000 Zooniverse volunteers comb through more than 60000 images from JunoCam to find around 8000 vortices between 2018-2021.
Jovian Vortex Hunter: A Citizen Science Project to Study Jupiter's Vortices - IOPscience
Jovian Vortex Hunter: A Citizen Science Project to Study Jupiter’s Vortices, Ramanakumar Sankar, Shawn Brueshaber, Lucy Fortson, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, Chris Lintott, Kameswara Mantha, Cooper Nesmith, Glenn S. Orton
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Ramanakumar Sankar @rsankar.bsky.social · Sep 8
I'm all for security, but by the time I've logged into the VPN and then finished the 2FA to log in to my remote work server I've already forgotten what I logged in to do.
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Ramanakumar Sankar @rsankar.bsky.social · Sep 2
If you've still got space I would love to be on it!
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Ramanakumar Sankar @rsankar.bsky.social · Dec 23
Just got around to watching The Creator last night and I simply can't get enough of the south/south-east Asian influence. Everything feels just like back home which is something that even south Asian movies are missing these days by shooting in exotic locations or using extravagantly designed sets.
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Ramanakumar Sankar @rsankar.bsky.social · Dec 12
As always I'm always surprised by how absolutely massive the AGU poster hall is
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