Nisarg Desai
Postdoctoral Associate
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNisarg Desai is a multidisciplinary postdoctoral researcher and engineer with 10 years' experience applying machine learning, computer vision, and Bayesian modeling to animal behavior and neuroscience. He designs synchronized multi-camera motion-capture systems and markerless 3D pose‑estimation pipelines to quantify primate behavior, currently studying motor and behavioral impacts of viral infections at Emory. Trained as a PhD field researcher in chimpanzee vocal communication, he combines acoustic signal processing and causal/Bayesian inference with practical software skills in R, Python, and deep learning on HPC. He mentors students and collaborates across ecology, psychology, and kinesiology, translating messy field data into reproducible analyses. Beyond academia he’s equally at home troubleshooting hardware‑software integrations—synchronizing FLIR cameras with microcontrollers—and plotting remote camping trips that keep his curiosity fueled.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical and Biological Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical and Biological Anthropology at University of MinnesotaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS and MS Dual Degree, Biology and Mathematics, BS and MS Dual Degree, Biology and Mathematics at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Swahili
Github Skills (4)
ieee4
datasets3
audio3
deep-learning2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
desai-nisarg/OpenApePose
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:66 commits, 54 pushes, 4 comments in 2 months
desai-nisarg/Gombe-dialects
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:28 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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