Our Team

LEADERSHIP

Dr. Rahul Bhowmik

CEO and Senior Scientist

Founder of Polaron Analytics, with more than 16 years in computational modeling and simulation and 14 years supporting defense contracts. He leads the company's data analytics and research and development work.

Douglas Brook

Business Development Manager and Facility Security Officer (FSO)

Project Management Professional (PMP) · B.S. Computer Science, Wright State University

An executive with more than 25 years of business experience, about 20 of them in the federal sector. He has founded and led several software, services and real estate companies and serves on a Wright State University computer science advisory board.

James Gateau

Advisor and Business Development

A business development professional with government and private sector experience, including roles at Tyto Athene and AT&T, following more than two decades of senior leadership service in the U.S. Navy.

Dr. Sushant Jha

Technical Advisor

A materials engineer with more than 18 years on Department of Defense programs, largely on site at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). His work covers aerospace materials fatigue, probabilistic life prediction and data science, and he is currently with the University of Dayton Research Institute.

Dr. Lokendra Poudel

Senior Research Scientist

Ph.D. Physics, University of Missouri-Kansas City

A research scientist with more than ten years of interdisciplinary work in computational physics, materials science and modeling and simulation. He builds machine learning and deep learning tools for data-driven decisions, following postdoctoral work at Texas A&M and UConn Health.

Bhaghyalakshmi Muthukumar

Software Engineer

M.S. Computer Science, University of Dayton

A full-stack developer experienced across several programming languages and cloud platforms, object-oriented design, data modeling, machine learning and web technologies. She is building a Django-based interface for running machine learning and deep learning models.

David Tincher

Machine Learning Engineer

B.S. Computer Engineering (in progress), Wright State University

Focused on machine learning, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). He built a TensorFlow convolutional neural network for forest fire detection and has worked on backend development with Flask.