Benoit Parmentier

About Benoit Parmentier

Hello! I am a Data Scientist, ML Engineer and Geospatial Scientist. I currently work at AccuWeather where I help in various modeling efforts involving AI, weather and geospatial data. Throughout the years, I worked on a variety of projects involving computer vision modeling (e.g. detecting boat with SAR satellite imagery, precipitation, lightning), text modeling and weather datasets. I developed many Earth Observation processing pipelines and helped resolve many geospatial and data customer issues. I frequently acted as a point person in data and ML Engineering in various company. I was also a team lead for a few years at Premise and mentored many team members. I like to keep myself up to date and learn new things. While being an applied data scientist in the private sector, I am a scientist and still actively involved in research. CORE EXPERTISE1. AI, Data Science & Machine Learning, Data wrangling, modeling and visualization. Statistics, Computer Vision and NLP.Tech: Python, Scikit learn, Pandas, Pypark, SQL, pyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, pytorch, Mlflow, jupyter, R.2. Engineering, Big Data & Distributed Computing:High Performance Computing, Cloud computingTech: Kubernetes, docker, GCP, AWS, Bigquery, Cloud run, docker, EMR, Spark, SLURM, PBS, airflow, databricks3. Geospatial Science and Analysis: Large satellite imagery processing and geospatial modelingTech: GDAL/OGR, geopandas, rasterio, xarray, Shapely, QGIS, GRASS, Postgis, Google Earth Engine, ArcGIS

Experience

1. Data Scientist Iii

   AccuWeather

   Nov 2025 — Present

Education

• Clark University

  PhD, Geography

  2005 — 2012

• Universite Libre de Bruxelles

  Licentiate degree, Geography

  1999 — 2003

• Universite Libre de Bruxelles

  DES/Master, Cartography and Remote Sensing

  2003 — 2004

Skills

• Cartography
• Geographic Information Systems (Gis)
• Qualitative Research
• Spatial Analysis
• Matlab
• R
• Research
• Delphi
• Environmental Science
• Remote Sensing
• Gis
• Arcgis
• Envi
• Scientific Computing
• Spss
• Data Analysis
• Python
• Erdas Imagine
• Gdal
• Geography
• Science
• Geomatics
• Idrisi