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Nicholas Scharan Cysne

Senior Software Engineer II

McKinsey & Company · QuantumBlack Labs

Software Engineer focused on Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Physics-informed Machine Learning, and Generative AI products.

Currently in R&D at QuantumBlack Labs, building machine-learning surrogate systems that stand in for costly CFD and FEA simulations, focused on the design of aerodynamics-related products.

New York, United States

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Airfoil surrogate

Physics AI · Surrogate model

Demo coming soon

Drag an airfoil's shape and angle of attack; a neural surrogate predicts lift and drag instantly, no CFD solver in the loop.

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Multi-agent coverage

MADRL · PPO · CTDE

Demo coming soon

A swarm trained with multi-agent deep RL spreads out to cover an area while keeping its network connected. Drop obstacles and watch it adapt.

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SnakeRL

Reinforcement learning

Demo coming soon

Watch a reinforcement-learning agent play Snake, and step through what its policy sees and decides on each move.

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Voice Agents

GenAI · Agents

Demo coming soon

Chat with a GenAI agents whose actions are gated by a strict state machine.