Resume

M.Eng. in Robotics

University of Maryland, College Park

GPA : 4.00/4.00

• Foundations of Deep Learning (Ongoing)
• Cognitive Robotics (Ongoing)
• 3D Vision
• Robot Programming using C++
• Human Robot Interaction
• Advances in Extended Reality (XR)
• Perception in Robots
• Path Planning in Robots
• Adv. Geometric Computer Vision
• Control of Robotics Systems
• Intro. to Robot Modelling

B.Eng.(Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering

BITS Pilani, Pilani campus

GPA : 8.20/10.00

• Machine Learning
• Object Oriented Programming using JAVA
• Intro. to Programming using C
• Intro. to Robotics
• Computer Aided Design (CAD)
• Finite Element Methods (FEM)
• Solid Mechanics
• Fluid Mechanics
• Heat Transfer
• Mechanical Vibrations
• Calculus I, II, III and IV
• Probability and Statistics
• Linear Algebra

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Renesas Electronics America Inc.

Summary : Specialized in MLOps & developing software for automated AI deployment on Renesas edge devices

• Built a Python edge AI deployment platform with end-to-end ML pipelines catered to time-series & image data from Renesas edge devices’ sensors, enhancing deployment speed by 64% & reducing manual work by 80%, saving over 100 man-hrs/month.
• Integrated ONNX Runtime in the platform, improving model inference speed by 40% & reducing training time by 30%.
• Reduced the edge deployment memory usage size of PyTorch Neural Nets by 52% by implementing Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA).
• Developed and deployed a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model for voice authentication on a Renesas edge device, using a 500 samples in-house dataset collected manually, achieving 96% accuracy on 100 unseen people from the wild.

Graduate Computer Vision Researcher

UMD Vision & Learning Lab

Summary : Conducted cutting-edge research on generative AI models for text-to-3D facial animation

• Performed literature review on 3DGANs, GAN Inversion, & CLIP models for a novel text-to-3D facial animations genAI model.
• Solved an intermediate problem of text based 3DGAN image editing by creating a model integrating EG3D with GAN Inversion for text-based manipulation of latent space using CLIP, trained using the EmotiW (facial emotions) dataset.
• Evaluated the intermediate approach using PSNR, SSIM and CLIP similarity scores to ensure latent space editing success.

Robotics Research Intern

Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems - IISc Bangalore

Summary : 3D obstacle detection and lower level controller for WIPRO sponsored L3 autonomous vehicle (AV)

• Developed LiDAR-based 3D object detection model for WIPRO sponsored L3 AV, achieving mAP values of 73% (cars) & 72% (pedestrians) on KITTI3D dataset, by training on Waymo Open dataset & self-curated Carla dataset of 10000 synthetic samples.
• Engineered Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) based lower level controller python software package, which along with the 3D object detection, gave around 92% successful collision avoidance over 50 simulated scenarios in Carla.
• Verified the controller by ROS deployment on a Copernicus UGV, resulting in a published conference paper on the same.

Computer Vision Research Intern

International Institute of IT Bangalore

Summary : ROS Perception stack and prototype development for autonomous farm robot

• Curated & annotated around 2000 plant images using Azure Image Labeling tool for YOLO model training using transfer learning.
• Achieved 94.6% accuracy on a publicly available leaf dataset, by training a YOLO leaf detection model for leaf counting, hence enhancing a farm robot’s crop health monitoring capabilities.
• Led a team of 5 junior interns and accelerated completion of farm robot prototype development and ROS perception stack deployment with the leaf detection model on the same, within 22 days.

All India Rank 1073 in JEE Mains out of 1.2 million candidates

Top 0.04 percentile in JEE Advanced, entrance exams to prestigious IITs

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Collegiate Badminton Player

University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, USA

Badminton Doubles player representing UMD in collegiate level competitions in the US

Volunteer Tutor

Happiee Souls NGO, Chennai, India

Mentored a batch of underprivileged kids taken care of by the NGO who lacked access to basic education, and tutored them in Mathematics, Science and English

Collegiate Track and Field Athlete

BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, India

Represented BITS Pilani in several collegiate and open meets. Medal winner in various 100m, 200m, 4x100m and long jump events

Student Mechanical Engineer

Pixxel - Student Nanosatellite team, BITS Pilani

Responsible for the simulation of structural and thermal interactions between the space environment and nanosatellites, which were to be launched with the help of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to provide affordable satellite imagery

President and Cultural Performer

Pilani Tamil Mandram (PTM), BITS Pilani

Responsible for managing 40+ volunteers and organizing events throughout the year 2017-2018 for PTM, the Tamil Culutral Association of BITS Pilani. Was also an annual dance performer for PTM in BITS Pilani's annual cultural events