Lucas Saldyt
Graduate Intern
Mesa, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolLucas Saldyt is an applied AI researcher and software engineer with a decade of experience building safety-critical and production ML systems for spaceflight and healthcare. Currently a Graduate Intern at NASA JPL, he deploys planning, localization, and interpretable ML on the Perseverance Mars rover and writes radiation-hardened embedded spaceflight software. His background spans PhD-level research in computer science, medical ML deployment at PathAI, and diverse NASA internships where he built search engines, data-mining libraries, and verification tools. Lucas blends hands-on robotics prototyping with strong systems engineering—he’s comfortable shipping Rust, Python, and JavaScript components into constrained, high-assurance environments. Known for tackling hard integration challenges (e.g., replacing inefficient web/Kubernetes flows with localized controllers), he brings both research depth and pragmatic production experience to ambitious autonomous systems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.83, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.83 at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Completed, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Completed at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State UniversityHigh School, High School at Sandia Preparatory School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (113)
dependency-management10
python10
quantum-programming-language10
quantum-algorithms10
python-packaging10
quantum-computing10
dependency-manager10
artificial-intelligence10
tomography10
3d-printer10
design-tool10
octoprint10
printer10
packaging10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sandialabs/pyGSTi
Jun 2016 - Aug 2018
A python implementation of Gate Set Tomography
Contributions:891 commits, 10 PRs, 618 pushes in 2 years 1 month
characterizationpythongatequantum-computingqcvv
LSaldyt/rice
Feb 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:77 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
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