Nikhil Chagi

“Robotics engineer who helped bootstrap Meta’s humanoid robotics effort, building simulation training and deployment infrastructure for vision-language-action (VLA) models. Evaluated multiple physics backends (Bullet, MuJoCo, Isaac, internal) to minimize sim-to-real gap and addressed control-loop frequency mismatches via sequence optimization/MPC-like approaches and trajectory-output modifications. Published research that contributed a new addition to ROS 2 and has built ROS2 node stacks spanning control, perception, teleop, tactile sensing, and imaging.”

“Built and deployed a healthcare NLP application that used an LLM-style physician interface feeding a random forest model to predict treatment plans for hard-to-triage patient subgroups, backed by a Databricks medallion pipeline and heavy feature engineering to address missing/low-integrity data across ~50K patients. Also delivered an earlier Microsoft AI Builder automation that improved transportation bill payment workflows by training non-technical payroll/procurement teams to use automated outstanding-payables reporting.”

“Analytics candidate with strong product and growth analytics experience across SQL, Spark, Python, and Tableau. They have built clickstream funnel pipelines, automated Bayesian experiment evaluation, and used Markov chain journey modeling to uncover onboarding friction that led to a 5% conversion improvement. They also show strong cross-functional influence by standardizing churn definitions across product and marketing teams and operationalizing adoption in shared dashboards.”