Denis Leshchev is a Senior Application Engineer at NVIDIA with nine years of experience connecting scientific instrumentation to real-time compute, specializing in spectroscopy, imaging, and data pipelines. He combines a PhD in solid state physics with hands-on software and hardware skills—building GUIs, GPU-accelerated image cleaning, and multithreaded acquisition systems that dramatically sped experiment throughput. At Brookhaven and Northwestern he led cross-disciplinary teams, mentored junior researchers, and delivered automation and computer-vision routines that cut setup times by orders of magnitude. Comfortable bridging academia and industry, he excels at turning domain knowledge into practical analytics and control software for complex experimental workflows. Notably, his work often focuses on linear algebra and robust statistics to enable online analysis and instrument autocalibration.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Solid state physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Solid state physics at Université Grenoble Alpes
Specialist Degree (Equivalent of MS) Solid state physics, Specialist Degree (Equivalent of MS) Solid state physics at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
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