Ankush Khandelwal
Staff AI Engineer at Havenly Brands (Havenly, Interior Define, Burrow, The Citizenry, The Inside, and St. Frank)
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAnkush Khandelwal is a Staff AI Engineer and former Co-Founder/CTO with a decade of experience applying advanced AI to large-scale geospatial and temporal satellite data, focused on understanding global surface water dynamics. He combines deep research credentials—a PhD and multiple peer-reviewed publications, patents, and an NSF grant lead—with hands-on product and go-to-market leadership from his startup Terra Cover. His work produced the first global surface-water history dataset of over 0.5 million water bodies and a high-resolution Arctic lakes map, demonstrating an ability to move research into impactful, open-source resources. Now based in Denver, he blends production ML engineering across retail brands at Havenly Brands with ongoing research into multimodal temporal foundation models for Earth observation. Colleagues describe him as a bridge between academic rigor and product delivery, able to mentor teams while shipping scalable pipelines for environmental and social impact. Unexpectedly, his early career spans embedded systems work at Qualcomm and remote-sensing algorithm development, giving him unusually broad technical depth from firmware to large-scale AI.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of MinnesotaB.Tech + M.S. by Research, Computer Science, B.Tech + M.S. by Research, Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ankushkhandelwal/river-depth-estimation
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:146 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
ankushkhandelwal/building-detection
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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