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Joshit Mohanty

Senior Research Engineer | Modeling & Simulation, Digital Twins, Operations Research

5+ years building production Simulation Platforms, Digital Twins, Agentic AI Orchestration, 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 Federal Government and commercial clients.

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✓ United States work authorization, F1 OPT/STEM
Impact
$500K+
Production systems delivered
300M+
Simulation scenarios
92%
Classification accuracy
72
Google Scholar citations
US Dept of Defense NSF MIT SpaceX NASA ODU Skoltech PlaSiV
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

Senior Research Engineer, Digital Twins

PlaSiV
2026 - Present
San Jose, CA (Remote)
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  • Currently in stealth mode. Details available upon request.

Research Scientist, Modeling & Simulation

Old Dominion University
2026 - Present
Norfolk, VA
  • 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).
  • As a GRA, performed 7,000+ algorithm generations testing agent behavior evolution.

Technical Program Lead, Fleet Analytics

ODU Research Foundation, US Department of Defense
2023 - 2025
Norfolk, VA
  • $496K across 3 programs. As Co-PI and GRA, undertook research, development, production, and 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
  • Launched an operational product from zero to $98K revenue in 8 weeks with 100+ clients. Managed full cycle from stakeholder buy-in through deployment to P&L reporting.
  • Optimized an LLM-powered training module by designing evaluation criteria and testing output accuracy. Improved workforce compliance by 25%.
  • Built simulation models for carbon tracking under Verra VCS 4.7 and UN SDG standards. Improved operational forecasting by 12%.
  • Formulated carbon accountability metrics using Power BI; improved ESG reporting efficiency by 19%. Drafted circular economy proposals projected to secure $4M and two industrial MoUs.

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 pipeline architecture diagram
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
NetLogo agent-based simulation of medical residency matching
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
GraphTreeMed architecture diagram
RAG Architecture, Healthcare

GraphTreeMed: Hybrid Graph-Tree RAG

Hybrid graph-tree retrieval-augmented generation for mission-critical medical applications. Severity-based routing with compliance verification. 35% critical-case recall improvement, 42% ICU error reduction.

Agentic RAG15K+ casesGraph-TreeODU
TAMOS multi-agent orchestrator system diagram
Multi-Agent AI, Orchestration

TAMOS: Task-Aware Multi-Agent Orchestrator

Framework optimizing LLM-based agent orchestration via hierarchical task classification, dynamic agent roles, and multi-objective evaluation. Uses Llama 3.2-3B for meta-reasoning.

LLM orchestrationMulti-objectiveLlama 3.2ODU
Meta-Clustering framework for healthcare conversational AI
NLP, Healthcare AI

Meta-Clustering for Conversational AI

Multi-state model clustering specialized language models (DLMs + SLMs) for region-specific healthcare. Dynamic orchestrator adapts to local dialects and epidemiological data. Published at IEEE SoSE 2025.

Meta-learningHealthcare NLPIEEE SoSEMulti-lingual
Digital Thread framework poster
Digital Twin, Federal

Process-Oriented Digital Thread

Transitional framework bridging outsourced microservices with intrinsic systems via shared protocols, adaptive feedback loops, and standardized models. Department of Defense Digital Engineering Initiative.

Federal maritimeSystem-of-systemsZero-trust
Carbon Accountability Score formula
Product, Revenue

Carbon Accountability Platform

Process-oriented carbon scoring (Verra VCS 4.7, UN SDGs). Ties emissions to operational processes instead of offset purchases. LLM-powered training module. Zero to $98K revenue in 8 weeks.

$98K in 8 weeks10+ clients25% complianceVerra VCS 4.7
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
A vs I in AI paper
Theory, HICSS 2026

Bandwidth-Limited Intelligence Threshold

Proposes that engineered AI faces a bandwidth-limited intelligence ceiling arising from sensor/actuator capacity. Dual-channel model separating physical I/O from representational capacity. Published at HICSS 2026.

Information theoryObserver-participantHICSS 2026
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.

Winter Simulation Conference 2026, premier international forum for system simulation. Invited.
2026
NetLogo Conference 2026 (inaugural). Accepted.
2026
NetLogo Conference 2026. Accepted.
2026
59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
2026
20th System of Systems Engineering Conference
2025
IEEE Conference on Data-Driven Social Change
2025
GSGA Research Conference, Old Dominion University
2025
GSGA Research Conference, Old Dominion University
2025
ASNE Fleet Maintenance Symposium. 5 citations.
2023
Integrating Generative AI with Systems Thinking
Conference on Complex Systems, Brazil
2023
71st International Astronautical Congress. 7 citations.
2020
5th IAA Conference, Rome
2020
72
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 EngineeringRAGLangGraph

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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Modeling & Simulation, Operations Research, Applied AI, Digital Twin Architecture, Technical Program Leadership.