Ardan Suphi

Machine Learning for Planetary Remote Sensing

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

I’m a PhD researcher at Imperial College London working on machine learning for planetary imagery and remote sensing. My work combines deep learning, scientific image processing, and large-scale data pipelines to build methods for reconstruction, mapping, and analysis across both high-resolution and planetary-scale datasets.

I’m particularly interested in representation learning, image reconstruction, global mapping, and foundation-model-style approaches for scientific and remote sensing data.

Research focus

Selected projects

A few representative projects. For more detail and additional work, see the projects page.

HiRISE Band Reconstruction and Data Processing

HiPredict is a deep learning and scientific data processing framework for reconstructing missing image data in high-resolution Martian imagery from the HiRISE instrument on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, motivated by the intermittent failure of the central RED4 detector since 2023.

Presented at Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2026

HiRISE Computer vision Mars Remote sensing Data pipelines

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Reinforcement Learning for Atmospheric Balloon Station Keeping

Imperial College Space Society project exploring reinforcement learning for atmospheric balloon station keeping, modelled on Google's stratospheric balloon initiative. I serve as AI Lead for the 2025-26 team.

Reinforcement learning Atmospheric systems Imperial College Space Society

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Supervised Water-Ice Detection on the Moon

MSc thesis project on predicting water-ice presence at the lunar poles using supervised learning and multimodal remote sensing data. The work combined Diviner, LOLA, M3, and Mini-RF products to score points across the polar surface, extending beyond permanently shadowed regions alone.

Presented at Space Resources Week 2025

Supervised learning Remote sensing Moon Multimodal Lunar resources

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Collaborations & affiliations

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