Sayonsom Chanda
Senior Chief Engineer at Samsung Electronics
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolSayonsom Chanda is a Senior Chief Engineer with 11 years of expertise at the intersection of utilities, clean energy and AI, currently leading engineering at Samsung after research leadership roles at NREL, National Grid and Idaho National Lab. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and has built enterprise-grade ML and deep learning systems, trained custom generative AI models for energy use cases, and integrated big-data pipelines across AWS, GCP and Azure. His work spans power systems digital twins, real-time hardware-in-the-loop platforms (10,000-controller CHIL), and the world’s first “Quantum-in-the-Loop” demonstrations for grid problems, bringing quantum algorithms into utility workflows. As a founder-level technologist he has shipped satellite-imagery and VHI-based outage prediction tools that measurably reduced outages in pilots and helped secure SBIR/NSF funding, and he contributes open-source projects like PyCanvass and QuantumGridOS. Based in Boulder, he pairs deep research rigor with productized deployments that improve grid resilience and operational decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B Tech Electrical Engineering, B Tech Electrical Engineering at National Institute of Technology DurgapurMaster of Arts - MA International Relations and National Security Studies, Master of Arts - MA International Relations and National Security Studies at Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA)Ph.D. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ph.D. Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Washington State UniversityIndian School Certificate High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Indian School Certificate High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Calcutta Boys' School
Hindi, Bengali, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
time-series-forecasting9
optimization8
jekyll8
markdown8
liquid7
swift-package-manager7
networking7
ruby7
constraint-programming7
operations-research7
aws7
static-site7
probabilistic7
forecasting7
linear-programming7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sayonsom/pycanvass
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:41 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
sayonsom/sayonsom.github.io
Mar 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:98 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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