Rohan Pattnaik
Assistant Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
Riderwood, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolRohan Pattnaik is an astrophysicist and machine learning engineer with 11 years of experience applying AI to hard scientific and industrial problems. He develops transformer-based foundational models for astrophysics, extending a PhD-era architecture into production research at Johns Hopkins after leading a deep-learning redshift framework during his doctorate. His work emphasizes realistic synthetic data generation and handling massive, high-dimensional inputs to turn processes that once took months into seconds for large spectral datasets. Rohan has bridged academia and industry through internships in quantitative analytics and applied deep learning for geoscience and transient detection, showing versatility beyond pure astronomy. Based in Maryland, he combines a B.Tech. in computer science with advanced astrophysical training to translate domain knowledge into robust ML systems. Colleagues value his ability to make unconventional datasets usable for state-of-the-art models and to ship reproducible pipelines that scale to future telescopes and archival archives.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology, BhubaneswarDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysical Sciences and Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysical Sciences and Technology at Rochester Institute of TechnologyHigh School, Science, 91.2%, High School, Science, 91.2% at Indore Public School
English, Hindi, Odia, Marathi, Gujarati
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Github Skills (10)
science7
supernova7
temperature7
astrophysics6
python6
spectrum5
quasar3
vue3
collector2
react2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
astrohanp/astrohanp.github.io
Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
Personal Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
react
rohanp11/Monte-Carlo-Algorithms
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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