CALLENTIS means EXPERTS
Partners for Science and Technology Research and Development
Applied R&D in engineering and technology to tackle cross-cutting challenges with societal and global impacts
Integrating emerging technologies into practice-ready solutions in transportation, energy, and healthcare industries
What Drives Us
Mission: use emerging technologies to drive quantifiable process improvements in transportation, energy, and healthcare fields.
Strategy: advance technologies from the state-of-the-art research to the standardized state of the practice; we are the D in R&D.
Tactic: deliver practice-ready solutions that integrate emerging technologies with context-sensitive subject matter expertise.
People: experienced civil, mechanical, and systems engineers, solution architects, software developers and data scientists.
What We Do
Applied Intelligence
Implement and integrate practice-ready AI techniques, such as machine learning for prediction & classification, evolutionary computation for optimization, federated ML for security & efficiency, physics-guided AI, natural language processing (NLP), Edge AI/ML, and MLOps
Applied R&D
Implement cutting-edge engineering and technology research into practice in Energy and Transportation industries; transfer technology from the state of the art to the standardized state of the practice; Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects
Software Engineering
Skillful engineering of software architecture, infrastructure, and database; professional development & automated testing; DevOps & DevSecOps; continuous integration & deployment (CI/CD); agile process-oriented product & project management (PMP)
Data Management
Prepare data for analysis; use best practices to design data architecture for collection, QA/QC, storage, documentation, access, governance and security
Domain-Specific Data Science
Democratize data science for professionals in any industry; custom no-code intuitive portals to learn while doing
Infrastructure Asset Management
Make data-driven decisions for infrastructure preservation and maintenance; from forecasting asset conditions to optimizing project portfolios
Registered Small Business
NAICS Codes
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
541330 - Engineering Services
541511 - Custom Computer Programming Services
541512 - Computer Systems Design Services
541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
We have collaborated with public and private organizations, including but not limited to
Who We Are
Callentis Consulting Group is a small research, development, and consulting company, focused on integrating the latest proven technologies into existing business processes to create growth and opportunity. With extensive background in engineering and computational science, our team offers software and hardware development for a variety of science and technology applications, and diagnostic support for data-driven decision processes. We thrive in problem solving and love tackling complex challenges that have global impacts. We have mainly worked in transportation, energy, and healthcare industries but would love a challenge where ever we can make a positive impact.
Meet the Callentis leadership team.
Andrew Drach, PhD
Founder and President
Dr. Drach has over ten years of experience in numerical modeling techniques, applied statistics, data science, custom software and hardware development, and renewable energy engineering. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles, presented at over 20 international conferences, and gave 4 invited talks. He did his postdoctoral training in Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire.
Monika Jociunaite, MS
Creative Director
Mrs. Jociunaite has over ten years of experience in business data analysis, creative communication, data visualization, and user experience design. She has extensive experience working in 5 different countries, and assisting large multinational firms with their regional marketing strategies. She has successfully helped more than 15 companies with the creative design of their product and functionality to offer a seamless user experience. Mrs. Jociunaite holds two bachelors degrees in Economics and Business Administration, and two masters degrees in International Business and Marketing.
Nima Kargah-Ostadi, PhD, PE, PMP
Vice President
Dr. Kargah-Ostadi has over ten years of experience in applied statistics, data science, machine learning, evolutionary computation, and transportation infrastructure asset management. He has published over 15 peer-reviewed articles, and presented at over 20 conferences, workshops, and webinars. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and a doctoral minor in Computational Science from Penn State University. He is a registered Professional Engineer and a certified Project Management Professional.
Reconciling communication and computational science for context-sensitive data-driven digital solutions.
we love diagnostic conversations.
Let us brainstorm together to discover what is working and what needs improvement in your current business process.
computational science is our expertise.
We formulate and quantify your objectives, prepare and clean your data, and then select analysis tools that fit your data and performance metrics.
Start today with a diagnostic conversation.
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