Vishnu Balakrishnan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolVishnu Balakrishnan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University with nine years of experience building real-time, scalable pipelines that convert petabyte-scale radio astronomy data into live discoveries. He has designed and deployed distributed pulsar search systems across multiple HPC clusters, leveraging Kafka, Nextflow, GPUs, and containerized workflows to enable low-latency, portable processing. As an ML engineer on the MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey, he integrated deep learning into production signal-detection pipelines and contributed to the discovery of over 100 pulsars. His background spans end-to-end systems engineering, from CUDA-accelerated algorithms to reproducible HPC deployments, and he’s mentored several PhD and Master’s students in this startup-like development environment. Based in Boston, he blends astrophysics research with production-grade software practices, turning streaming instrument telemetry into scientific breakthroughs. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of coordinating inter-cluster communication to run parallel workflows reliably at astronomical scale.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at Christ University, BangaloreDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at The University of Bonn
Github Skills (18)
searching6
pymysql4
pulsar4
python3
pipenv3
gpu3
cpp3
flask-api3
cuda3
marshmallow3
high-performance3
python-api2
sqlalchemy2
starlark2
alembic2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vishnubk/5D_Peasoup
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
vishnubk/sgan
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 51 commits, 49 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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