# Nishant Desai

> ML @ Sunday Robotics

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nishantdesai

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Sunday
Jan 2025 – Present

### Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Autopilot @ Tesla
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Senior Software Engineer, Autopilot @ Tesla
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023

### Senior Engineer @ DeepScale
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Machine Learning Engineer @ UnifyID
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Graduate Student Researcher @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, CA
Graduate student associated with Berkeley Artificial Intelligence (BAIR) Lab and Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI). Worked primarily on problems in AI Safety

Projects:
- Uncertain Reward-Transition MDPs for Negotiable Reinforcement Learning (MS Thesis)
- Do Steph Curry and Klay Thompson Have Hot Hands? (Work featured on Numberphile Youtube channel)

### Research Software Engineer Intern @ United Technologies Research Center
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, CA

### Gradudate Student Instructor @ UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, CA
Courses:
- CS 88: Computational Structures in Data Science
- CS/STAT/INFO C8: Introduction to Data Science

### VP of Projects @ Blueprint, Technology for Non-Profits
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, CA

### Software Engineering Intern @ Redfin
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineering Intern @ Redfin
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Computer Science and Statistics
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nish-desai
- Website: https://nishdesai.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-05