Profile
Nishant Hegde
Machine Learning Engineer | Data Scientist
Rochester, NY
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Personal Info
About: Data scientist based in Rochester with 5 years of combined work experience in software engineering, machine learning and computer vision.
Interests: Building stuff, watching movies, playing video games, playing football and drumming
Fun Fact: This year, I was introduced to rock climbing and snowboarding, which have become my latest obsessions.
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Work Experience
Data Science Intern
Company: EagleHawk One, Inc
Dates: June 2025 - Present
Description: As a Data Science Intern, I led the development of 3 MVP deep learning solutions for the company’s AI platform across object detection, instance segmentation, and retrieval-augmented generation. A modular computer vision pipeline for detecting streetlights in low-light nighttime drone imagery, a thermal imaging based rooftop leak detection pipeline on aerial FLIR imagery, leveraging AWS ML infrastructure, and an offline RAG system with hybrid retrieval (Docling multimodal parsing, Ollama LLM) for gas facility safety training.
Machine Learning Intern
Company: Laboratory for Laser Energetics | University of Rochester
Dates: August 2025 - December 2025
Description: As a Machine Learning Intern, I developed neural operator and attention-based spatiotemporal models for high-energy laser physics, achieving ~1% prediction error and 1.57% energy error, while engineering distributed HPC training pipelines that reduced training time by 40% and GPU memory usage by 30% on A100/H100 clusters.
Software Engineer
Company: Software Engineer | Toshiba (KIOXIA America, Inc)
Dates: August 2020 - May 2024
Description: As a Software Engineer, I designed and validated enterprise NVMe SSD firmware, built automated regression and CI pipelines that improved firmware stability by 15%, reduced manual QA effort by 20%, increased documentation efficiency by 33%, and enhanced long-running test reliability through fault-tolerant debugging and telemetry tools.
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Education
Masters in Data Science
Institution: University of Rochester
Location: Rochester, NY
Dates: August 2025 - December 2025
Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering
Institution: KLE Technological University
Location: India
Dates: August 2016 - June 2020