Thomas Vandal
Scientist, CEO And Co-Founder at Zeus AI
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Vandal is a scientist and CEO with 11 years of experience applying machine learning and computer vision to large-scale Earth science datasets, building foundation models for satellite observations and atmospheric inference. As co-founder and CEO of Zeus AI and PI on multiple NASA SBIR and ROSES projects, he translates cutting-edge deep learning research—on topics like 3D atmospheric structure, cloud tracking, virtual sensing, and climate downscaling—into operational tools for climate mitigation and adaptation. His background spans supercomputing and petabyte-scale workflows at NASA NEX and academic deep learning research during a PhD at Northeastern, giving him rare fluency across research, engineering, and high-performance deployment. Based in Cambridge, MA, he combines entrepreneurial drive with rigorous math training (B.S. in Mathematics) and a track record of securing government research funding, often bridging collaborations with agencies like GMAO at Goddard.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Interdisciplinary Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Interdisciplinary Engineering at Northeastern UniversityB.S. Mathematics, B.S. Mathematics at University of Maryland
Github Skills (28)
python10
data-science10
scikit10
statistics10
machine-learning10
super-resolution10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
scikit-learn10
neural-network10
data-analysis10
netcdf8
datasets7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tjvandal/tjvandal.github.io
Sep 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
tjvandal/discrete-continuous-bdl
Feb 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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