Bhaskar Mookerji has a diverse work experience spanning over several years. Bhaskar currently holds a position as a Firmware Engineer at Span, starting in July 2021. Prior to that, they worked as a Software Engineer at Mapbox from February 2019 to July 2021, focusing on Navigation APIs. Before that, they were involved in Infrastructure and Data Engineering at Second Measure from April 2018 to February 2019.
From September 2014 to October 2017, Bhaskar served as the Lead Software Engineer at Swift Navigation. Bhaskar contributed to various projects and was responsible for leading the software engineering team. Prior to that, they worked as a Software Engineer at The Climate Corporation, where they specialized in writing Clojure for building agricultural yield models and services.
Bhaskar's earlier experiences include working as a Software Engineer at Discovery Engine, a small web search startup (acquired). Bhaskar applied distributed machine learning and data mining techniques for web information retrieval. Bhaskar also worked as a Research Assistant at MIT, where they focused on optical physics and nanofabrication of nanophotonic devices.
Additionally, Bhaskar has worked as a Research Engineer/Intern at Apple and as a Research and Teaching Assistant at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics. Bhaskar was involved in building optical sources for quantum cryptographic key distribution and designing protocols and systems for long-distance quantum state teleportation.
In 2007, Bhaskar served as the Technical Director at the MIT Mobile Autonomous Systems Lab, where they collaborated with graduate students to run MIT's autonomous, artificial vision-based robotics contest. Bhaskar was responsible for hardware maintenance, deployment, and lecturing on embedded sensors, software engineering, and robotic behavior/control.
Overall, Bhaskar Mookerji possesses a diverse range of skills and experiences in firmware engineering, software engineering, infrastructure, data engineering, and research in various fields such as navigation, agriculture, quantum physics, and robotics.
Bhaskar Mookerji completed their education with a Bachelor of Science (SB) degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2009. Bhaskar then pursued further studies at MIT and obtained a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, completing the program in 2011. Continuing their academic journey, Bhaskar Mookerji went on to pursue a doctoral degree at MIT, specializing in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Nanotechnology. Bhaskar successfully completed their PhD in 2015.
July, 2021 - present