Makenna Roberts

Makenna is a first generation student in Duke's Master of Statistical Science program. She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and statistics from Utah State University. With an interest in data driven legislation, Makenna contributed to Utah State's 2024 and 2025 Reports to the Governor and Legislature on Utah's Land, Water, and Air and completed a legislative internship with the U.S. House of Representatives in 2024.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Student Statistical Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

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Published April 2, 2025

Land, Water, Air: USU Science Valedictorian Aims to Bring Knowledge to Policymaking

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Recent Publications

Compilation of a Nationwide River Image Dataset for Identifying River Channels and River Rapids via Deep Learning

Journal Article Remote Sensing · January 1, 2026 Highlights: What are the main findings? A new dataset of 281,024 river images from across the United States, with metadata and labeled subsets to support hydrologic research is made publicly available. Demonstrated strong performance of segmentation and cl ... Full text Cite

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Makenna Roberts

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Current Appointments & Affiliations

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Recent Publications

Compilation of a Nationwide River Image Dataset for Identifying River Channels and River Rapids via Deep Learning

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