Summary
Nishchal 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 Kanpur
3.83/4.0, 3.83/4.0 at Columbia University in the City of New York
English, Hindi, German