Industry Experience
Staff Software Engineer
Palo Alto Networks (Jun 2026 - Present)
- Chronosphere was acquired by Palo in early 2026. Continuing prior work under a new job title.
Applied AI Researcher
Chronosphere (Aug 2025 - Jun 2026)
- Developed context-aware anomaly detection tools under limited and noisy data.
- Enabled timeseries as a modality for LLMs without retraining.
- Built production-ready models optimised for performance, inference speed and compute cost with PyTorch.
Google Summer of Code Contributor
NumFOCUS, PyMC (May 2025 - Sep 2025)
Simulation and Machine Learning Engineer
Monash High Powered Rocketry (Apr 2022 - Feb 2025)
- Led the research and development of ANDROMEDA, a data-driven tool which sped up fluid simulations from hours to minutes.
- Vice lead of the Dynamics section during the 2023-2024 management cycle.
- Oversaw and managed section R&D projects.
- Reported to CTO at technical meetings.
- Built and ran distributed pipelines on the MonARCH cluster.
Research Experience
ML/AI Research Intern
Bureau of Meteorology (Dec 2024 - Aug 2025)
- Investigated a novel approach which blends the interpretability of physics-informed methods with the performance of modern transformer pretraining techniques.
- Developed an architecture which significantly reduced the training and inference cost of gridded data inputs.
- Built and ran training and evaluation pipelines on the Gadi cluster at scale.
Student Research Intern
University of Melbourne (Nov 2022 - Mar 2025)
- First author in empirical study reporting novel observations of heat fluxes in tropical cyclones.
- Made data analysis up to 48 times faster by introducing multithreading.
Education
BEng (Hons)
Monash University (Feb 2022 - Nov 2026)
- Major: Aerospace Engineering, Minor: Artificial Intelligence
- WAM: 82/100, GPA: 3.64/4.00 (High Distinction)
- Honours Thesis under A/Prof. Mehrtash Harandi and Riccardo Ali.
- Selected cohort rankings:
- 3rd of ~200 in ENG2005 Advanced Engineering Mathematics.
- 8th of 197 in ECE4179 Neural Networks and Deep Learning
- 2nd of 57 in MAE3401 Aerodynamics 2
- 5th of 42 in MAE3404 Flight Vehicle Dynamics
- Top 5% in MEC3456 Engineering Computational Analysis
University Extension Program (Physics)
University of Melbourne, (Feb - Nov 2021)
- Selected as one of around 20 students statewide based on academic performance to undertake two first year physics units during my final year of high school.
- H1 Honours (High Distinction).
Publications
Novomestsky, M., Voermans, J. J., & Babanin, A. V. (2025). In situ measurements of sensible heat fluxes in a tropical cyclone. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL115842. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115842
Competitions and Awards
Charles Hoult Modelling and Simulation Award 2nd Place, 2023
- Internationally recognised for ANDROMEDA at the Spaceport America Cup.
International Young Physicists’ Tournament (IYPT), 2021
- Captain of the Australian team.
- Researched and presented on university-level theory including Lagrangian mechanics whilst still in high school.
- Directed team in research setting under a tight schedule.
Two-time ASO Physics Olympiad Distinction, 2020 and 2021
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