Kyle Pearson
Data Scientist
Altadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Pearson is a data scientist at JPL with 11 years of experience blending observational astronomy, machine learning, and software engineering to drive space- and Earth-science missions. He holds a PhD in planetary sciences and has built end-to-end systems—from telescope hardware and control interfaces to image-processing pipelines and Bayesian retrieval models—for exoplanet detection and atmospheric characterization. His work spans ground and space-based spectroscopy, computer vision for automated landform detection, and ML-driven remote sensing applications for climate and ecological forecasting. As a co-founder of an AR/VR startup, he has translated research-grade algorithms into real-time control and motion-capture systems, demonstrating rare full-stack instrumentation expertise. He publishes extensively (40+ works) and maintains a coding portfolio, combining rigorous academic research with production-ready cloud and pipeline implementations. Based in Altadena, CA, he brings a practical mix of hardware integration, uncertainty-aware modeling, and field-tested observational experience.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaM.S., Physics, M.S., Physics at Northern Arizona University
python, c, sql, java, html
Stackoverflow
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352reached
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Github Skills (193)
interpretation10
python10
astronomy10
expressions10
transit10
correlation10
huggingface10
gemma10
maximization10
core-library10
orbital-mechanics10
astrology10
planet10
mistral10
golang10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pearsonkyle/Exo-Machina
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
A large language model, GPT-2, is trained on ~1.6M manuscript abstracts from the ArXiv. Fine-tuning is performed with the abstracts from NASA's ADS and the model is later used to generate text for a predictive keyboard
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 33 pushes in 4 months
pearsonkyle/PhotometryTools
Jun 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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