Sonya Sawtelle
Senior Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Engr at Lockheed Martin
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolSonya Sawtelle is a Senior AI and Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of quantitative problem-solving experience and a decade-plus track record combining rigorous academic training (Ph.D. in Applied Physics, BS in Physics) with industry-grade ML systems. At Lockheed Martin she builds computer vision for satellite remote sensing and designs AI for 5G spectrum awareness and intelligent RIC applications, while researching knowledge distillation, contrastive and self-supervised learning. Prior roles span data science consulting and product-focused ML work—Bayesian MCMC for published chemistry research, demand forecasting, lifing models, handwriting recognition, and operational dashboards. A compulsive optimizer and frugal minimalist by temperament, she favors elegant, efficient solutions and has a history of shipping practical tooling that surfaced subtle issues (e.g., data leaks) and improved decision-making. Based in New Haven, she blends deep technical rigor with clear cross-functional communication, mentoring junior researchers and delivering insights that bridge research and production.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, 3.98, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, 3.98 at Indiana University BloomingtonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Physics at Yale University
Github Skills (58)
converter9
markup9
statistics9
data-analysis8
haskell8
python8
solver8
commonmark8
machine-learning8
pandoc8
table-of-contents8
markdown8
data-science7
jupyterlab7
datasets7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sdsawtelle/sdsawtelle.github.io
Oct 2015 - Sep 2019
Sonya Sawtelle, quantitative problem solver and data enthusiast.
Contributions:124 commits, 1 PR, 112 pushes in 4 years
pythondata-sciencesolverproblemquantitative
sdsawtelle/PyCharmSync
May 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:128 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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