about

Robin Nandi is a Research Software Engineer in the Digital Institute at Newcastle University. The team focuses on delivering software engineering expertise for research projects across the university. He graduated with a MSci in Physics from Imperial College in 2008 followed by a PhD from the same university in 2012. He has worked in Software, Consultancy and Data Science roles in Financial Services including for PwC and Atom Bank.

He started in the Research Software Engineering team at Newcastle University in April 2022.

PROJECTS

  • Chicken Run / School of Natural and Environmental Sciences

    2022
    • Monitoring of chickens via video camera to detect smothering behaviour
    • Investigation of techniques to identify smothering both with hindsight and in real time
    • Look into tracking of individual chickens and identification of group behaviour

education

PhD Physics / Imperial College

2008-2012

Particle Physics research at CERN

technical

  • Programming:
    • Python
    • R
    • C++
  • Software:
    • SQL (Postgres, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server)
    • GCP
    • Git (Github, GitLab)
    • WordPress
  • Topics:
    • Application Build
    • GCP
    • AWS
    • DevOps
    • Containers
    • Docker

Interests

  • I enjoy:
    • Running
    • Hiking
    • Badminton
    • Travelling
    • Chess
    • Reading