Nishchal Dethe
Chief Artificer at WeBuildTech
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNishchal Dethe is a Toronto-based senior machine learning engineer who blends research depth with hands-on product delivery across gaming, VR, and neuroscience. He serves as Chief Artificer at Project Hephaestus and advisor at WeBuildTech, steering in-game generative AI agents and advanced motion-sequence modeling in simulated environments. At Sinn Studio, he led ML initiatives to create more engaging VR swordfighting characters and built end-to-end 3D asset pipelines, including SFM-based modeling with text-conditioned modification. He was the founding engineer at Sybill, building the ML stack from scratch to deliver multimodal behavioral analytics for emotionally aware video calls and guiding cross-functional product work. His scientific training includes an MS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia and a BTech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kanpur, with strong fluency in C/C++, Python (PyTorch, TensorFlow), Matlab, and ML tooling, underpinned by collaboration with the 22-lab International Brain Laboratory.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur3.83/4.0, 3.83/4.0 at Columbia University in the City of New York
English, Hindi, German
Github Skills (10)
spike9
pose6
computer-vision4
deep-learning3
pose-estimation3
openface2
scribe1
python1
spring1
modeling1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nd2506/yass
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
spikeyet-anothersorter
paninski-lab/yass
Nov 2017 - Oct 2020
YASS: Yet Another Spike Sorter
Contributions:29 commits, 42 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 years 11 months
spikeyet-anothersorter
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