Manuel Silva Vega🧠🛰️

PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering (PUCV, Chile) · Visiting doctoral researcher at Université Clermont Auvergne (France).

I work on GeoAI and Earth Observation to monitor the stability of mine waste storage facilities (TSF, WRD, LWD) in Chile.
My research combines satellite imagery (Sentinel-1/2), DEMs and geotechnical data with modern deep learning (PyTorch, TorchGeo, vision transformers).

Research snapshot

• 🛰️ Satellite-based monitoring of mine waste facilities
  Multimodal models for mapping and tracking TSF, WRD and LWD across Chile.

• 🧪 Risk indicators from remote sensing
  Simple, explainable indicators derived from imagery and DEMs to support geotechnical assessment.

• 📦 Open datasets & code
  Building MineWasteCL_DB and related pipelines to support reproducible research in GeoAI for mining.

Current affiliations

• 🎓 PhD candidate, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV) – AI-MineSafe research group.
• 🤝 Visiting doctoral researcher, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA) / Institut Pascal (France).

Connect

• 🔗 Google Scholar
• 💻 GitHub
• 🌐 AI-MineSafe PUCV
• 💼 LinkedIn