About
Hello! My name is Sepand Dyanatkar. Currently, I am a Masterās student at the University of Cambridge and also run the technical side of OnDeck Fisheries AI, a startup that uses machine learning to enable sustainable fishing.
My research interests revolve around using what I know for solving difficult problems. Itās a bit of a catch-all, but my day-to-day is constantly evolving based on the problems Iām working on.
Previously, I completed my Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Physics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. At the same time, I was a research intern at Polytechnique MontrĆ©alās MIST Lab, working on hierarchical robotic swarms.
At Cambridge, Iām in the deep end of machine learning, reinforcement learning, and various types of distributed systems. For my thesis, I am trying to āinjectā resilience into multi-agent reinforcement learning systems.
Summer 2020 & 2021, I worked as a Software Development Engineer intern at Amazon with the Amazon Fuse team. Prior to that, I was an intern at the European Space Agencyās European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, specifically working on the Electronic FieldBook with the CAVES and PANGAEA team.
While at UBC, I was a part of the UBC Rocket Engineering Design Team, working on avionics for all the rockets. Over the past few years, Iāve also worked on some fun projects projects involving single-cell gene visualizations, robot swarms for lunar deployment, an actor-based distributed graph processing system and more.
From 2021 to 2022, I was an elected board member of SEDS-Canada, a student-run student-focussed space non-profit. I continue to work on a variety of personal projects in my spare time, and participate in space and tech conferences and activities.
While in Vancouver, I can also be found on the mountains skiing and hiking, or enjoying Vancouverās temperate waterfront by biking, running or sailing.