Abhishektha Boppana
Staff Research Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhishektha Boppana is a Staff Research Engineer with 11 years of interdisciplinary experience turning 3D body-scan data and biomechanics research into practical, wearable product designs across spacesuits, footwear, and consumer electronics. At Meta Reality Labs he leads modeling and user studies that directly shaped fit and comfort for AR/AI glasses products like Oakley Meta Vanguard and Ray-Ban collaborations, and helped deliver a low-bridge SKU to expand fit options. He holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering with bioastronautics-focused research that produced a predictive model of dynamic foot morphology and informed novel spacesuit boot prototypes validated by human-subject testing. Comfortable bridging engineering, industrial design, product, and user-research teams, he translates simulations and experimental insights into actionable design changes that reduce returns and improve inclusivity. Notably, his background spans NASA projects and open computational biomechanics tools, giving him rare domain depth in both spaceflight-grade modeling and consumer product ergonomics.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biomedical Engineering (Biomechanics) | Minor in Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biomedical Engineering (Biomechanics) | Minor in Mechanical Engineering at Case Western Reserve UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
English, German, Telugu
Github Skills (18)
marker10
camera9
open-access8
journal8
intel8
academia7
addon7
computational-biology6
creative-commons6
python6
bioinformatics5
realsense5
binder5
dynamics5
biomechanics4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
anderson-cu-bioastronautics/dynamo_realsense-capture
Sep 2018 - Nov 2021
A Python library with tools for capturing body shape and marker tracking with Intel RealSense D4XX Cameras
Contributions:3 releases, 76 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 2 months
python-librarycapturingpythonmarkermarker-tracking
CU-AMSRO/CU_AMSRO_Email_Newsletters
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
Repository for generating and hosting CU AMSRO email newsletters
Contributions:22 PRs, 26 pushes, 20 branches in 7 months
hostingemailnewsletters
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