Nicholas Carrara
Senior Data Scientist, Specialist Senior
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Carrara is a Senior Data Scientist and machine learning research scientist with a Ph.D. in Physics and eight years of experience applying CV, generative AI, reinforcement learning, and scalable ML systems to scientific problems. He combines theoretical contributions—such as first-principles mutual information derivations and a high-dimensional MI estimator using Monte Carlo Tree Search—with hands-on engineering of multi-GPU pipelines for sparse 3D reconstruction and production-ready ML code. At UC Davis and national labs he led multi-institutional experiments (DUNE, ARTIE, MArEX) and built ML-driven signal detection and reconstruction tools for particle and neutron physics. Equally comfortable with contrastive learning, GNNs, transformers, and diffusion models, he bridges research and product by optimizing large-scale simulation stacks (LArSoft, PyTorch) for real experimental throughput. Based in Sacramento, he’s now applying this blend of theoretical depth and systems engineering at Deloitte to build intelligent systems with measurable scientific and operational impact.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University at AlbanyAssociate of Science - AS, Biology, General, Magna Cum Laude, Associate of Science - AS, Biology, General, Magna Cum Laude at Hudson Valley Community College
Github Skills (17)
argon10
physics10
pybind1110
python-bindings10
nest10
simulation9
python9
imaging7
machine-learning6
voronoi6
delaunay5
qhull4
topological-data-analysis4
convex-hull4
delaunay-triangulation3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Neutron-Calibration-in-DUNE/NeutronExtractor
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:255 pushes, 3 comments, 6 issues in 9 months
Neutron-Calibration-in-DUNE/LArSoftArrakis
Jul 2022 - Feb 2024
Scripts for installing and running the Arrakis module in LArSoft.
Contributions:6 PRs, 84 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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