Dinesh Natesan
Board Member at UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDinesh Natesan is a multidisciplinary scientist-engineer and board member based in Santa Barbara, blending nine years of research with hands-on engineering across experimental neuroscience, computational models, and open hardware. He holds a joint PhD background spanning Life Sciences and Computer Science and currently pursues postdoctoral work at UC Santa Barbara while serving on eLife’s board. Dinesh has founded and led a deep-tech startup focused on optical computing, gaining product, fundraising, and team-building experience alongside rigorous academic training. His work spans building novel experimental setups, data-analysis pipelines, and models of insect navigation and fly connectomes, reflecting a rare mix of wet-lab, hardware, and computational fluency. Driven to tackle neglected, high-impact problems, he combines curiosity across fields with a mission to produce scalable, elegant systems that benefit humanity and the Earth.
9 years of coding experience
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Life Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Life Sciences at Manipal Academy of Higher EducationDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyVignan VidyalayaKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, English
Github Skills (60)
hugo10
google-analytics10
charts10
scrape10
statistics10
web-analytics10
responsive10
github-pages10
tailwindcss10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
obsidian10
static-site-generator9
nextjs9
analytics9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AbstractGeek/CategoricalScatterplot
Aug 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
AbstractGeek/comic-scraper
Sep 2016 - Jan 2022
[Python] Scraps comics and manga from various websites and creates cbz files from them
Contributions:7 releases, 43 commits, 13 PRs in 5 years 4 months
download-mangapythoncbzcomicsscrape
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