Hari Iyer

Experience

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  App Orchid Inc

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2017

  Engineering Intern

  Summer Internships 2016 & 2017.• Built an accident data/document classifier and search engine over unstructured data for a pool of insurance companies.• Implemented classifier using an auto-enhancing Naive Bayes model using Spark ML Pipeline that automated 40% of the manual workload.• Inferred structure from tribal knowledge using Stanford NLP to build a knowledge graph.• Created a 100K data point training set with Word2Vec out of unstructured text with a WebSocket listener.

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  Arizona State University

  Dec 2017 - Jul 2018

  - Responsible for community living and housing safety of over thousand students including military families living on campus.- Duties include night safety patrolling, organizing community events, working with campus maintenance and ASU Police for assisting with safety/community care procedures, room inspection reports, and student move ins/outs. • Co-founded and wrote software for PARA-ATM, a flight prognostics and route simulation system. This was delivered to NASA Ames and adopted by SwRI.• Set up a continuous real-time flight data exchange between FAA System Wide Information Management (SWIM) and ASU, attaining 100% automation for the process.• PARA-ATM is open-sourced on GitHub for community research purposes and is being used by over 25 aerospace research groups globally.

  • Resident Assistant

    Aug 2017 - Jul 2018

  • Research Assistant

    Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
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  Optimal Synthesis Inc.

  Jun 2018 - Jul 2022

  Research Engineer

  • Designing, building, and testing systems for US-NAS Air Traffic Management as part of NASA’s $10 million ULI grant. Contributed to GNATS software as the deliverable.• Implemented the first-ever Gate-to-Gate flight simulation for improving safety metrics by 50%. Used for research by the FAA, NASA Ames, AAI, and global aerospace researchers.• Bridged third-party simulators like X-Plane with GNATS for real-time accident simulation of US Airways 1549 on the Hudson River.• Optimized 6-DOF Inertial Measurement Unit using real-time embedded signal processing towards Inertial Navigation Systems for the MDA. Show less

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  Dec 2019 - Feb 2020

  Visiting Researcher

  • Programmed Air Traffic Controllers’ (ATCo) traffic controlling strategies to assess prospective memory and situational awareness (Including real-time at Mumbai ATC for over 60 ATCo). • Disproved traditional factors (age/experience) for ATCo proficiency, reinforcing cognitive ability as a criterion. This work was part of a research initiative with the Airports Authority of India (AAI).

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  Arizona State University

  Dec 2022 - now

  Graduate Research Associate

  • Working on Computer Vision and Neural Networks for physical task posture estimation as part of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) grants.• Assisting with project grant proposal preparation and running experiments.• Developing biomechanical and cardiovascular sensing and analysis algorithms. • Building technology and hardware for projects at HiMER lab.

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  HFES Student Chapter at ASU®

  Jan 2025 - now

  Officer: Graduate Student Representative