Siddharth Nair
Staff Engineer - Nextracker AI & Robotics at Nextracker Inc.
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolSiddharth Nair is a Staff Engineer specializing in AI and robotics, currently building scalable autonomy solutions to optimize utility-scale solar farms at Nextracker after nine years of applied research and industry work. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley where his thesis advanced real-time, learning-accelerated model predictive control and Transformer-based interaction predictors that sped up MPC solves by an order of magnitude and delivered robust collision avoidance in hardware-in-the-loop tests. Prior roles include senior AI engineering at WideSense, where he combined evolutionary optimization, MILP/branch-and-price, and deep learning surrogates to optimize electrified vehicle fleets and charging operations. Siddharth blends rigorous control theory and practical systems engineering—writing ML surrogates and fine-tuning LLMs to accelerate solvers—and has a track record of turning academic control innovations into production-ready optimization pipelines. Based in Berkeley, he brings rare cross-domain expertise spanning nonlinear control, combinatorial optimization, and deployed autonomy for energy and mobility systems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, High School at DPS-MIS, QatarIndian Institute of Technology Bombay
Github Skills (4)
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Github contributions (5)
shn6695/eye-tracking-scroller
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:21 pushes in 1 month
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shn6695/Project1_SDES
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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