Nitish Nayak
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Town of Brookhaven, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNitish Nayak is a particle physicist and postdoctoral researcher with nine years of experience designing and analyzing large-scale neutrino experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory and earlier roles in India and industry. He combines hands-on simulation, reconstruction, and R&D for DOE-funded projects with project coordination and supervision, bridging deep physics expertise and practical team leadership. Trained with a PhD in Elementary Particle Physics from UC Irvine and engineering and physics degrees from IIT Bombay, he is equally comfortable with detector-level simulation and data-driven analysis workflows. Earlier industry experience as a quantitative research analyst honed his skills in machine learning, data mining, and applied modeling across healthcare, logistics, and finance. Based in Brookhaven, NY, he brings a rare mix of experimental physics rigor and applied data-science practice to tackle sub-atomic discovery challenges.
10 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology BombayDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Elementary Particle Physics at University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (17)
genie9
interaction9
generator8
neutrino8
redmine7
python6
gaussian-processes6
tensorflow5
simulation5
algorithms4
gaussian4
cli2
golang2
python-modules2
regression2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nitish-nayak/dotfiles
Sep 2016 - Aug 2025
Contributions:233 pushes, 7 branches in 9 years
nitish-nayak/numi_flux
Feb 2024 - Jun 2026
Compare NuMI flux models at MicroBooNE
Contributions:4 PRs, 71 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 4 months
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