Avinash Pujala
DARPA AI ML Research Scientist at Amentum
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAvinash Pujala is an AI/ML research scientist with 11 years of experience bridging neuroscience and machine learning to drive advanced research for DARPA and defense contractors. With a PhD in Neuroscience from Brown and a strong postdoctoral track record at NIH and Janelia, he applies principled neuroscientific insights to practical ML problems, from sound-source separation to defense-focused AI systems. He has led research teams and served as principal investigator at Systems & Technology Research, translating novel models into deployable pipelines. At Insight Data Science he built SeeSound, a neural pipeline for isolating diverse audio sources, illustrating his knack for generalizing academic methods to real-world applications. Based in Virginia, he combines deep domain expertise with program-level scientific support for DARPA programs, often operating at the intersection of fundamental research and mission-driven engineering. A rarely highlighted strength is his fluency in both experimental neuroscience and production ML, enabling him to design solutions that are biologically informed yet engineering-ready.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at Brown University
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Github Skills (8)
routines8
relation-extraction8
wavelet7
hdf6
ipython6
python6
h5py6
time-series3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
avinashpujala/av_segmentation
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:58 commits, 64 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
avinashpujala/General
Jan 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:89 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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