Curriculum Vitae

PhD, Computer Science

North Carolina State University, NC, USA

• Research Interests
  • Reinforcement Learning & Optimal Control
  • Real-time Autonomous Systems
• Advisor
  • Dr. David L. Roberts (Current), Dr. Zhishan Guo (Previous)
• Transfered PhD from University of Central Florida (2021 - 2022)

Master of Science, Computer Engineering

University of Central Florida, FL, USA

• Research Interests
  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Deep Learning
• Advisor
  • Prof. Yaser P Fallah
• Thesis
  • Real-time SIL Emulation Architecture for Cooperative Automated Vehicles
• Research Interests
  • Research - Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vehicular Networks, ADAS

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering

University of Mumbai, India

• Ranked 1st amongst 120 students in the Electronics dept.
• Creative team head at Annual college festival - Pegasus

Research Assistant

North Carolina State University, NC, USA

• Leading the F1tenth-autonomous racing platform development team
• Ranked 2nd in USA, 4th in time-trial and 5th in head-to-head internationally in the ICRA 2022 F1tenth competition
• Developement of OpenAI Gym environment and RL algorithms for scheduling
• Enabled communication & research collaboration of UCF with my previous employer NHK-I

Research Scientist

Unknot.id, Florida, USA

• Development of multi-modal data acquisition and visualization user tool with experiment management features
• Research and implementation of policy-based deep reinforcement learning algorithms for real-time localization via map-matching

Research Engineer

NHK International, Michigan, USA

• Prototyping and development of factory automation systems based on robotics and SOTA computer vision algorithms for a highly dynamic industrial environment
• Developed pipeline to acquire point cloud data from sensor, integration with ROS, point cloud segmentation, model fitting using RANSAC and ICP, model perception, robot motion & path planning with MoveIt

Research Assistant

University of Central Florida, FL, USA

• Developed & optimized Model Predictive Contouring Control algorithm for autonomous racing vehicles
• Collaborated on Stable Baseline 3 based Reinforcement Learning algorithms for autonomous racing
• Achieved best lap time in simulation race

Founder and CEO

HugoPets Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India

Research Assistant

University of Central Florida, FL, USA

• Real-Time SIL Emulator for ADAS Testing and Validation - Sponsered by Ford Motor Company
  • Designed and developed a unique and easily configurable emulation/simulation architecture to allow Software-In-Loop testing and validation of connected vehicle applications
• Small-scale Connected Autonomous Vehicle
  • Mentored a team of 5 undergraduate students to build a fleet of vision sensors equipped small-scale autonomous vehicles to navigate using advanced planning algorithms and thus provide a test-bed for V2X safety applications
• Vehicle Safety Communications Applications - Sponsered by CAMP
  • Research and development in DSRC based V2V Safety Networks, Model-based Information Networking for situation awareness in Automated vehicles

Software Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India

• Business Intelligence Developer

• Selected for Frank M. Hubbard Engineering Scholarship (Didn't accept as moved from UCF to NCSU)

• Recipient of Graduate Dean's Fellowship
• Recipient of Hoglund Fellowship

• Recipient of Dean's Award for Excellence in Academics