topic Re: Penns State Student Studying Geography/Economics with a Focus in AI/ML and GIS in Esri Young Professionals Network Networking

Penn State Student Studying Geography/Economics With a Focus in AI/ML and GIS

JamesRowley41 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:29:05 GMT

Hello! I heard about Esri's YPN over AAG last week, and I wanted to make a post to introduce myself and reach out to others if they want to connect. My name is James Rowley, and I am a senior at the Pennsylvania State University studying geography/economics with a focus in AI/ML tools and GIS. Excited to connect! Find my LinkedIn: James Rowley | LinkedIn

Re: Networking Post AAG

ChrisDFox — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:30:37 GMT

Nice to meet you James, and welcome!

Re: Penns State Student Studying Geography/Economics with a Focus in AI/ML and GIS

RosemaryBoone — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:28:31 GMT

Hi @JamesRowley41 - so nice to see you using the YPN Networking space! WOW I didn't realize you were working on AI/ML as well as GIS in geog. That's incredible! What kind of projects are you working on? If you're interested in writing about them, email me at rboone@esri.com. Since AI/ML is up and coming in the GIS space, we don't have a ton of blog content on the YPN blog and would be a very useful topic to write about. Again, nice to meet you at AAG!

Re: Penns State Student Studying Geography/Economics with a Focus in AI/ML and GIS

JamesRowley41 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:16:41 GMT

Hi @RosemaryBoone. Happy to be here. I have experience working with U-Net Deep Learning algorithms, but a good part of my AI experience comes from my free time- locally hosting/fine tuning models, workflow integration and automation are my specialties, especially regarding GIS code. Would be happy to reach out and write a blog post!