Eric Wendt
Senior Research Scientist at Leidos
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Wendt is a Senior Research Scientist and computer vision engineer with eight years of experience building embedded perception systems for defense, transportation, and environmental sensing. He designs hardware-agnostic perception stacks for camera, infrared, and LiDAR sensors and has led development of real-time target identification, tracking, and traffic-analytics models deployed in production. A PhD from Colorado State University, he invented a patent-pending low-cost IoT air quality monitor and ran a nationwide, student-driven deployment to study wildfire smoke transport—work that combined embedded design, cloud QA, and deep transfer learning for solar radiometry. Eric pairs rigorous academic research with hands-on engineering (machining, microcontrollers, and system integration) and a track record of commercializing perception models across startups and large contractors. He brings uncommon breadth across embedded systems, ML, and field deployment, with additional experience in customer-facing roles and team leadership that helps translate research into operational systems.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University
Github Skills (6)
css3
mongodb3
vue2
javascript2
nodejs1
testing1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
easXin/Tic-Tac-Toe
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
easXin/Spending-Tracker
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 59 pushes, 2 branches in 20 days
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