Kalai Ramea
Member at South Park Commons
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKalai Ramea is an interdisciplinary ML scientist and founder with 11 years of experience building forecasting systems, ML infrastructure, and physics-informed AI at scale, currently focused on capacity planning and inference demand for AI systems. With a PhD in Operations Research and a track record as CTO and DARPA/NSF PI, Kalai blends rigorous research with product delivery—leading teams that moved transformer and diffusion models for long-range weather forecasting past NOAA and ECMWF benchmarks. He has hands-on experience architecting data pipelines (10TB+), production deployments, and raising $2.4M in venture funding while securing federal research grants from NSF, NASA, and DARPA. Known for translating customer feedback into scientific goals, he pairs domain expertise in energy and transportation modeling with practical ML ops and API-driven products. Based in the Bay Area, he also brings public-facing communication experience as a TEDx speaker and a history of turning academic innovation into deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Focus: Quantitative Modeling / Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Focus: Quantitative Modeling / Operations Research at University of California, DavisMasters, Transportation Engineering, Masters, Transportation Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaB.S., Civil Engineering, B.S., Civil Engineering at College of Engineering, Guindy
English, French, German
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Github Skills (56)
tipping9
open-access8
unity3d8
earth-engine8
webcam8
serve8
detector8
google-earth-engine8
landsat8
journal8
google-earth8
image-processing7
academia7
binder7
google7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PARC/intricate-art-neural-transfer
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 7 months
whowteam/bebo
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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