Pinkas earned his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in chemical engineering at Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, with a specialization in mathematical modeling of dynamic systems and numerical solutions. He has extensive programming experience in both academic and commercial settings and started consulting in the field of high performance and high throughput computing in 2010. His current research interests are satellite image analysis (primarily Landsat data), ecosystem/crop simulations (AgroIBIS and DSSAT models), and parallel computing (involving both software and hardware solutions).

In his spare time, Pinkas runs a NASA-associated, extracurricular rocket science and engineering program at Madison West High School.