Harsha Sista
Postdoctoral Scholar at Penn State University
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolHarsha Sista is a Postdoctoral Scholar and aerospace researcher with over a decade of hands-on experience spanning PhD work, wind-turbine icing mitigation, rotorcraft aerodynamics, and high-speed pod propulsion. Trained in mechanical engineering at BITS Pilani and advanced at Iowa State, he combines CFD expertise, mesh generation and aeroelastic analysis with practical leadership of student teams in competition and prototype builds. His work bridges academia and industry—ranging from in-house Navier–Stokes code simulations at Politecnico di Milano to applied research internships at NextEra Energy—demonstrating a talent for translating complex simulations into engineered solutions. An avid reader and part-time musician, he brings creative curiosity and effective mentorship to collaborative projects, often mentoring student teams in CFD and design.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State UniversityClass 12, Class 12 at St. Joseph's Academy, DehradunClass 10, Class 10 at St. Joseph's Academy
English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, German
Github Skills (17)
mog10
rna-seq10
bioinformatics9
transcriptomics9
datasets8
exploratory-data-analysis8
exploratory8
workbench6
data-analysis5
sentence3
similarity2
semantic-similarity2
nlp2
natural-language-processing2
semantic2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vksriharsha/MetaOmGraph
May 2020 - Jul 2022
MetaOmGraph: a workbench for interactive exploratory data analysis of large expression datasets
Contributions:3 PRs, 122 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 2 months
data-analysisexploratoryworkbenchdatasetsexploratory-data-analysis
vksriharsha/Causal-Inference-on-Gene-Expression-Data
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 months
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