Anirban Santara — Software Engineer
Anirban Santara is a Research Software Engineer at Google Research India. Prior to this, he was a Google PhD Fellow at IIT Kharagpur. He specialises in Robot Learning from Human Demonstration and AI Safety. He interned at Google Brain on data-efficient learning of high-dimensional long-horizon continuous control tasks that involve a hierarchy of goals at different time scales. He was the project-lead for MADRaS - the world’s first open-source multi-agent autonomous driving simulator (github.com/madras-simulator). Aside from his Robotics research, Anirban lead a team of researchers at IIT Kharagpur and ISRO that developed a novel Deep Neural Network architecture - BASS-Net (IEEE-TGRS 2017) - and information retrieval framework - PUNCH (arXiv:1904.04547 2019) - for land-cover classification in hyperspectral images. Anirban has also worked in Deep Learning for diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy and industrial process optimization in collaboration with Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals and Tata Steel, respectively. Anirban loves teaching and actively engages with the community through online courses (NPTEL), and on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/idliai/). He represented the AI community of India at the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students 2017, in Sochi, Russia. For more information about Anirban, please visit: anirbansantara.org.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Robotics and AI expert with a focus on autonomous systems and deep learning.
Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Experience: 12 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence
- Robotics
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
Career Highlights
- Led development of world's first open-source multi-agent driving simulator.
- Published research on safe reinforcement learning for autonomous driving.
- Engaged in community teaching through online courses.
Work Experience
Research Software Engineer (6 yrs 2 mos)
Research Intern, Google Brain (4 mos)
Software Engineering Intern, Google Brain (4 mos)
Intel Labs
Graduate Research Intern (11 mos)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Google India PhD Fellow (3 yrs 10 mos)
Doctoral Research Fellow (4 yrs 9 mos)
ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization
Research Consultant (3 yrs 9 mos)
Government of India
Research Consultant (2 mos)
Texas Instruments
Summer Intern (2 mos)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Undergraduate Student Researcher in the field of Machine Learning (1 yr 4 mos)
Undergraduate Student Researcher in the field of Quantum Mechanical Devices (7 mos)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
School leaving certificate at Bidhannagar Municipal School
