Vasanth Sarathy
Principal AI ML Scientist at Leidos
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVasanth Sarathy is a Principal AI/ML Scientist with 11+ years building trustworthy, mission-ready AI that couples structured representations, persistent memory, and interpretable reasoning to support high-stakes decision-making. He leads research-to-deployment efforts at the intersection of neurosymbolic memory, belief tracking, and human-centered agents, translating ideas into funded projects and operational tools for defense, intelligence, and enterprise workflows. A PhD in computer and cognitive science and prior roles spanning academia, startups, and enterprise (including Tufts, SIFT, and Leidos) give him rare depth across theory, systems, and real-world impact. He also brings an unusual blend of skills—a JD and a background in IP law plus a long-running cartooning/generative art practice—that inform his focus on explainability, ethics, and human-aligned design.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Tufts UniversityBS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at University of ArkansasJD Law, JD Law at Boston University School of LawIndian School Muscat, Muscat, Sultanate of OmanSM Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, SM Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hindi, Tamil
Github Skills (23)
golang8
lte7
grid-world7
llm7
4g7
deep-reinforcement-learning6
go6
grid6
llama6
5g6
network5
ollama5
mistral5
reinforcement-learning5
c-language5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MetaMoo/MetaMooWebApp
Aug 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:52 commits, 1 push in 9 months
vasanthsarathy/vsarathy.com
Jul 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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