Nehal Desai
Research Engineer Evil Genius at The Aerospace Corporation
El Segundo, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNehal Desai is a research engineer with 13+ years of hands-on experience applying numerical simulation and machine learning to geospatial, signal processing, and national-security problems. At The Aerospace Corporation he leads data science teams building vehicle-tracking systems, anomalous transfer detection, and deep-learning solutions for satellite imagery, leveraging a strong Python ecosystem skillset. Earlier work at Los Alamos National Laboratory spans HPC, MPI development, GPGPU acceleration, cyber red-team exercises, and visualization for the Roadrunner petascale evaluation. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and combines rigorous academic training with pragmatic engineering—equally comfortable designing algorithms and shipping production systems. Colleagues know him for an “open door” approach to problem discovery that surfaces the subtle clues leading to breakthrough solutions.
13 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, Seriously!!!, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, Seriously!!! at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (1)
python1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nehald/random_bits
Nov 2012 - Jul 2014
Contributions:37 commits, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
nehald/density_clustering
Nov 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 3 pushes in 8 months
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