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ABOUT COSMIQ WORKS

Founded in 2015 as a technology challenge lab within In-Q-Tel (IQT), CosmiQ Works was an IQT Lab focused on developing, prototyping, and evaluating emerging open source artificial intelligence capabilities for geospatial use cases. Artificial intelligence will fundamentally change how geospatial analytics is performed and CosmiQ Works helps accelerates development and adoption of these technologies into deployable products. And by the way, it’s pronounced “Cosmic.”

As of March 2021, CosmiQ Works has been folded into IQT Labs.

CosmiQ Works Alumni

Adam Van Etten (November 2015 — March 2021)

  • YOLT/SIMRDWN, APLS, SpaceNet 3, 5, 7 Challenge Manager
  • Now Chief Data Scientist at IQT Labs

Daniel Hogan (February 2019 — March 2021)

  • Robustness Study, Introduction to SAR, SCOT (links)
  • Now Data Scientist at IQT Labs

Jake Shermeyer (September 2017 — November 2020)

  • RarePlanes, SpaceNet 6 Challenge Manager, Super Resolution Trade Study, CometTS
  • Now Data Scientist at Capella Space

Ryan Lewis (co-founder, March 2015 — September 2020)

  • Head of CosmiQ (2015, 2017–2020), Market Surveys, GM of SpaceNet
  • Now at AWS

Nick Weir (September 2018 — April 2020)

  • Solaris, SpaceNet 4 Challenge Manager
  • Now at AWS

Dave Lindenbaum (co-founder, March 2015 — December 2018)

  • SpaceNet Data Manager (Challenges 1–4), SpaceNet 2 Challenge Manager, Commercial SAR Market Survey, Commercial Space Framework
  • Now at Accenture

Lisa Porter (October 2015 — October 2018)

  • Establishment of SpaceNet, SpaceNet Challenges 1–3, Commercial SAR Market study, Remote Sensing Market study, and the Satellite Communications Market study
  • Subsequently Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, now co-Founder and co-President of LogiQ, Inc.

Todd Stavish (co-founder, March 2015 —October 2017 )

  • Establishment of SpaceNet, SpaceNet 1 Challenge Manager
  • Subsequently head of IQT’s Lab 41, now at SRI Ventures

Lee Cohn (February 2017 — October 2017)

  • Multispectralization
  • Now at Nike

Patrick Hagerty (July 2015 — July 2017)

  • SpaceNet Building Metric, Super-Resolution
  • Now at Arena