Vinu Vikraman
Assistant Professor at Central University of Kerala
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolVinu Vikraman is an assistant professor and data scientist with over a decade of experience applying advanced statistical and machine learning methods to astrophysics and biomedical imaging problems. He has led international scientific collaborations and produced high-impact results—co-authoring dozens of journal papers—while building scalable analysis pipelines deployed on 70–128 node clusters to process hundreds of millions of simulated and observed galaxies. His technical toolkit includes Python, MCMC, Random Forests, clustering and image segmentation, and he has delivered reusable software such as the PyMorph galaxy image pipeline and other research packages. Equally comfortable mentoring students and running distributed computations, he has translated complex astronomical theory into reproducible, production-ready code and even helped rule out a popular modified gravity model using observed data. Based in Arlington, MA, he brings a rare blend of deep domain expertise in cosmology and practical software engineering for large-scale scientific computing.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at Mahatma Gandhi UniversityPh. D., Astrophysics, Ph. D., Astrophysics at IUCAA Pune
Github Skills (26)
validation-framework10
validation9
wrapping9
galaxy9
python8
k27
astronomy7
sampling7
astrophysics7
cffi7
pypi6
parallel-python5
mcmc5
multicore5
kepler4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vvinuv/halowlsz
Mar 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:86 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
vvinuv/descqa
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
Validation framework for mock galaxy catalogs
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
validation-frameworkvalidationcatalogsgalaxymock
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