Oct 2020 – Aug 2025 · 4 yrs 10 mos · San Diego, California, United States

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos · Mountain View, California

• Developed and trained end-to-end novel Autoencoders based on Deep Neural Network for detecting anomalies in driving behavior. The algorithm successfully detected 100% of synthetically injected anomalous vehicles in 82% of sections in AIMSUN simulation of I-66 (VA) road network. The proposed novel architecture was presented at IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2019.

Oct 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs · Blacksburg, Virginia

• Thesis: Distributed Intelligence for Multi-Agent Systems
• Working under the supervision of Dr. Ryan Williams and Dr. James McClure, on developing self-contained and mobile computational clusters for distributed Deep Learning inference loads, path planning and control algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Search and Rescue missions
• https://caslab.ece.vt.edu/

Sep 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Blacksburg, Virginia

• The Autodrive Challenge, by SAE International and General Motors, is a three-year autonomous vehicle competition to develop and demonstrate a full autonomous driving passenger vehicle. The technical goal of the competition is to navigate an urban driving course in an automated driving mode as described by SAE Standard (J3016) level 4 definition by year three.

Jul 2015 – Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

• Led the Software Architecture team for NVIDIA's Yocto Project and developed the first accelerated Linux-based stack for NVIDIA Drive Pegasus (Automotive) Platform. Integrated several 3rd-party and in-house frameworks such as Qt, CUDA, MapBox, ROS etc for the NVIDIA Automotive Platforms and maintained the SW stack for 3 generations of automotive platforms. Worked with NVIDIA Business Development India team to train over 1000 faculty, staff, engineers and students in Deep Learning in top universities, organizations and faculty development programs across India.

Jul 2014 – Jun 2015 · 11 mos · Bangalore

Aug 2013 – May 2014 · 9 mos

• Led a group of 9 representative student innovators, under the direct supervision of Dr V. S. Rao, Director BITS Pilani -Hyderabad, with varied experience and expertise at BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus to drive innovation and practices among all stakeholders on campus.
• Led the ideation, planning and execution of the then biggest event (in terms of prize money) Idea Contest
• Facilitated streamlining and delivery of MOOCs offered by BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
• Formed associations with the Honeybee Network and represented the University at events organized by National Innovation Foundation

Oct 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Established the first multidisciplinary society for robotics and applications at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus underpinned by the Department for Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Students' Welfare Division (SWD).
• Instructed Arduino and Hands-on Robotics lab for over 600 students at the University over 3 years
• Mentored six award-winning contingents at top robotics contest/events across India
• Build strong associations with 3rd-party electronic component/workshop vendors to facilitate development and activities on campus

May 2013 – Aug 2013 · 3 mos · Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur

• Developed a novel chaos and permutation-based multimedia encryption algorithm outperforming various standards on metrics such as correlation, entropy, histogram analysis and key sensitivity.

Oct 2012 – May 2013 · 7 mos

• Founded the first ever Technical Festival at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus. Worked with all engineering and sciences departments of the institute, administrative bodies and organizations to collate and orchestrate one of the biggest student-driven technological event in Southern India.