Manasvita Joshi
Director For Data Science & Research Facilitation, FAS Research Computing
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolManasvita Joshi is an astrophysicist-turned-data-science leader with nearly a decade of experience building high-performance models, software, and research infrastructure for multi-institutional science teams. She currently directs data science and research facilitation at Harvard FAS Research Computing, having previously accelerated astrophysics workflows at Boston University—implementing optimizations that yielded up to 60x speedups—and led research computing efforts at Northeastern. A seasoned grant reviewer and NASA project lead, she blends deep domain expertise in high-energy astrophysics with practical skills in MCMC, OpenMP optimization, signal processing, and machine learning to move projects from proposal to production. Her international collaboration record and 30+ conference presentations reflect strong communication and mentorship chops, from teaching undergraduates to advising graduate students and interns. Notably, she applies systems-level thinking to research software, turning large file-processing bottlenecks into reusable, disk-backed in-memory solutions that materially accelerate scientific discovery.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)PhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at Ohio UniversityUniversity of Delhi
Github Skills (2)
slurm2
hpc1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
northeastern-rc/training-gpu
Jun 2022 - Jun 2023
Material for October 2021 GPU training module
Contributions:3 releases, 7 reviews, 5 PRs in 1 year
cudaoctobergputrainingtraining-module
northeastern-rc/training-slurmarrayjobs
Oct 2022 - Jun 2023
This repository contains training material (example scripts) for Slurm array job training session
Contributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 6 PRs in 7 months
slurmarraytraining-materialtrainingjob
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