EDUCATION
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, July '14 - May '18
Bachelor of Technology with honours in Mechanical Engineering
Minor in Electrical Engineering
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Qualcomm, Sep '21 - Present
Currently working in Automotive AI software team
Autonomous Vehicle Engineer, L&T Technology Services, Aug '18 - Sep '21
I handled LiDAR-camera based perception and state estimation subsystems in LTTS's autonomous vehicle program
Implemented Segmentation networks for Auto parking
Implemented multi-lane detection using DNN for LDW & LKAS
Developed LiDAR & camera based object detector for AEB and object tracking
Developed state estimator with GPS, IMU & odometry data using Kalman Filter derivatives
Summer Intern, Sterlite Copper (A unit of Vedanta Ltd), Tuticorin, May '17 - July '17
Performed feasibility study for alternative cooling methods in the Drying Tower cooling circuit
Investigated cooling tower performance and recommended ways to reduce water loss
NOTABLE PROJECTS
Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition-2017, Michigan, USA
Our team(SeDriCa) from IIT Bombay was the Grand Award Winners and won prize money of $7000. We were placed 1st in the Auto-Nav challenge, 2nd in the Design competition and 2nd in the IOP challenge. You can watch our winning run here. I, along with a team mate named Surya Teja, handled the LiDAR perception, Localization and Interoperabilty subsytems. The whole journey was a great learning experience.
For all the college students out there who would like to learn more on autonomous ground vehicles, this competition is a great starting point. For more info you can visit their website
2D Particle Image Velocimetry, IIT Bombay, Apr '16 - June '16
Implemented a C++ program using FFT based cross correlation for 2D PIV, a popular non intrusive fluid flow measurement method. This work was done in collaboration with Gowtham Kuntumalla, under the mentorship of Prof. Amit Agrawal. The code and results can be found here
MISCELLANEOUS
Held a position as KVPY Mentorship Student and has participated in Vijyoshi Camp-2013 at IISc, Bangalore
Was awarded Certificate of Merit in NSEA-2014 for being placed in the National top 1%