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Joshit Mohanty

Senior Data Scientist | Modeling & Simulation, Operations Research

5+ years building production simulation platforms, digital twins, and natural language processing systems for fleet operations, matching markets, healthcare, space systems, and supply chains. Delivered $500K+ in funded systems for the United States Department of Defense and commercial clients. Prototype in orbit aboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy.

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✓ United States work authorization, F1 OPT/STEM
Impact
$500K+
Production systems delivered
300M+
Simulation scenarios
92%
Classification accuracy
69
Google Scholar citations
NSF US Dept of Defense ODU MIT Skoltech UN INFORMS Blackstone Micron SpaceX NASA IEEE Dassault IIT Madras IIT Roorkee MassChallenge CACI IAF NSF US Dept of Defense ODU MIT Skoltech UN INFORMS Blackstone Micron SpaceX NASA IEEE Dassault IIT Madras IIT Roorkee MassChallenge CACI IAF
What I Do

Capabilities

Modeling & Simulation

Agent-based modeling, discrete event simulation, system dynamics, Monte Carlo, operations research, process optimization.

NLP & Applied AI

Sentiment analysis, text classification, RAG architectures, large language model integration, hallucination mitigation.

Digital Twin & Architecture

Process-Oriented Digital Thread. Macro-micro service bridging. Predictive maintenance for federal operations.

Program Leadership

Federal grant acquisition. Multi-stakeholder delivery. Proposal-to-production lifecycle.

Experience

Core Roles

Research Scientist, Modeling & Simulation

Old Dominion University
2026 - Present
Norfolk, VA
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  • Multi-method simulation (agent-based + discrete event), 300M+ scenarios on AWS HPC. Two undocumented failure modes discovered.
  • US medical residency matching (42,000+ applicants). NSF EAGER Grant #2333570 ($198,534).
  • 7,000+ algorithm generations testing agent behavior evolution.

Technical Program Lead, Fleet Analytics

ODU Research Foundation, US Department of Defense
2023 - 2025
Norfolk, VA
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  • $496K across 3 programs. Prime contractor coordination.
  • NLP pipeline: 160,000+ records, 92% accuracy, 87% time reduction. In production.
  • Proposals securing $350K+ in federal funding.

Strategy Lead

Earth In Motion
2023
Virginia Beach, VA
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  • Zero to $98K revenue in 8 weeks, 10+ clients.
  • Carbon tracking simulation. 25% compliance lift.

Program Director

AATWRI Group
2022 - 2023
Chennai
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  • $100K product launch, 12-person team, 18% ahead of schedule.

Systems Engineer

German Orbital Systems
2019
Berlin
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  • Designed and prototyped CubeSat. Launched aboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy to low-Earth orbit. Still operational in space.

Sustainability Analyst

Office of Virginia State Senator
2023

Space Systems Engineer

United Nations SGAC, Vienna
2019 - 2023

Systems Analyst

Urban Research Council, New York
2022 - 2023

Project Associate

IIT Madras
2018

Mechanical Systems Engineer

IIT Roorkee
2017

Industrial Engineer Trainee

Steel Authority of India Limited
2016

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Old Dominion University

Systems Engineering. 40+ students per course.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

UT Arlington

Manufacturing, Safety, Data Science. 70+ students.

Graduate Assistant

Skolkovo Institute

Rocket building mentorship.

Featured Work

Projects That Shipped

NLP, In Production

Fleet Maintenance NLP Pipeline

End-to-end pipeline for US Navy work orders. 160,000+ records, 687 abbreviations, 1,550 misspellings. Delivered to Department of Defense. Running in production.

92% accuracy87% time saved160K+ records$146K funded
Simulation, NSF Funded

Medical Residency Matching Model

Agent-based model, 42,000+ applicants. NSF EAGER Grant #2333570 ($198,534). Winter Simulation Conference 2026, the premier international forum for system simulation.

42K+ agents300M+ scenariosNSF fundedWSC 2026
Space Systems, In Orbit

CubeSat on SpaceX Falcon Heavy

Designed and prototyped CubeSat using shape memory alloy technology at German Orbital Systems, Berlin. Launched to low-Earth orbit. Still operational in space.

SpaceX Falcon HeavyLow-Earth orbitOperational
Digital Twin, Federal

Process-Oriented Digital Thread

Predictive maintenance architecture for US federal maritime operations. Department of Defense Digital Engineering Initiative.

Federal maritimeSystem-of-systems
Product, Revenue

Carbon Accountability Platform

Carbon tracking simulation (Verra VCS 4.7, UN Sustainable Development Goals). LLM-powered training module. Zero to $98K revenue in 8 weeks, 10+ clients, 25% compliance lift.

$98K in 8 weeks10+ clients25% complianceVerra VCS 4.7
Education

Academic Foundation

ODU

Ph.D., Engineering Management & Systems Engineering

Old Dominion University
Complex systems, simulation, organizational modeling. Advisor: Dr. Andy J Collins.
SkoltechMIT

M.S., Engineering (Space) Systems

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (partnership with MIT)
President's Award, Top 3%. Research at MIT Aeronautics & Astronautics.
Intellectual Property

Patents

Autonomous UV Sanitizing Robot

96.7% disinfection efficiency. Recognized by Micron Technology.
✓ GRANTED

Vehicle Blind Spot Reduction System

Sensor-integrated automated alerting during turning.
✓ GRANTED

Autonomous Fluid Dispensing Machine

Agricultural and fire-fighting applications.
✓ GRANTED
Research

Selected Publications

25+ peer-reviewed papers across simulation, AI, healthcare, and space systems.

Agent-Based Model of Application Fever in the National Resident Matching Program
Winter Simulation Conference 2026, premier international forum for system simulation. Invited.
2026
Detecting the Silo Trap in Multi-Agent Systems: A NetLogo Framework
NetLogo Conference 2026 (inaugural). Accepted.
2026
Application Fever as Emergent Behavior in Medical Residency Matching
NetLogo Conference 2026. Accepted.
2026
A vs. I in AI: Is there a Threshold to "Engineered" Intelligence?
59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
2026
Meta-clustering framework for conversational AI in healthcare
20th System of Systems Engineering Conference
2025
Mitigating Hallucinations in LLMs for Document Intelligence
IEEE Conference on Data-Driven Social Change
2025
Navigating the frontier: Biomedical technologies for Healthcare 5.0
Elsevier. 16 citations.
2024
Digital Twin for Smart Societies: Inclusive Healthcare
6th ICAIAME, Warsaw
2024
Integrative ML for Genomic Sequence Classification
ASEM Conference. 4 citations.
2024
Automated Prioritization of Maintenance Work Orders via NLP
ASNE Fleet Maintenance Symposium. 5 citations.
2023
Integrating Generative AI with Systems Thinking
Conference on Complex Systems, Brazil
2023
Logistics architecture for first crewed Mars mission
71st International Astronautical Congress. 7 citations.
2020
Interplanetary communication architecture
5th IAA Conference, Rome
2020
Entrepreneurial evaluation of the African space sector
New Space Journal. 4 citations.
2021
69
citations
4
h-index
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Toolkit

Skills & Standards

Simulation & Modeling

Agent-Based ModelingNetLogoAnyLogicMesaRepastDiscrete Event SimulationSystem DynamicsMonte CarloDigital TwinModel V&V

ML & NLP

PythonPandas/NumPyscikit-learnWord2vecTF-IDFSentiment AnalysisPredictive AnalyticsCausal InferenceTime Series

LLM & Automation

Claude APIGPT APIClaude Coden8nPrompt EngineeringRAG

Infrastructure & Standards

AWS HPCSQLMATLABPower BIGitJIRANASA-STD-7009AASME V&VNIST AI RMF
Recognition

Awards

2025

Best Presenter, GSGA, ODU

2021

National Entrepreneur, Blackstone LaunchPad

2021

NASA Rover Challenge (Mentored, Runners Up)

2020

Global Innovation, Micron Technology

2020

Grand Award, DRDO, Indian Air Force

2019

President's Fellowship, Skolkovo Foundation

2019

Limca Book of Records, sounding rockets

2017

Top 100 Innovators of India, CII

2017

Product Design, Dassault Systèmes

2016

Best Innovation, DST, Govt. of India

Press

Media Coverage

USN
US Business News
2024
 UTA
UT Arlington
2022
 Arlington
Arlington Chamber
2022
 Dallas
Dallas Innovates
2021
 AW
Automated Warehouse
2020
 IE
Indian Express
2018
 OP
Orissa Post
2018
 TP
The Pioneer
2018
 BB
Bhubaneswar Buzz
2017
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