๐Ÿ’ผ Work History

  • Senior Deep Learning Engineer - Multimodal AI Qualcomm Jun 2024 - Present

    Developing Multimodal AI (LiDAR + Camera) for static and dynamic object detection and tracking. Building Vision Foundation model-based networks for various autonomous tasks.

    Manager: Senthil Yogamani, Dr. Varun Ravi Kumar

    San Diego, California

  • Developer & Mentor - 3D Reconstruction Google Summer of Code May 2024 - Sep 2024

    Mentoring project on converting unconstrained video to Gaussian Splats with OpenCV organization. Working with Gary Bradski, Founder & President of OpenCV foundation.

    Manager: Gary Bradski

    San Diego, California

  • Senior Machine Learning Engineer Qualcomm Aug 2021 - Jun 2024

    Led the development of optimized visual odometry solutions for AR/VR/MR use cases. XR Research - Computer Vision team focusing on spatial computing technologies.

    Manager: Vasudev Bhaskaran

    San Diego, California

  • Graduate Student Researcher DroneLab, University of California San Diego Sep 2019 - May 2021

    Designed and deployed an Attention-based CNN on 600 cameras for wildfire detection (ALERTWildFire initiative). Developed 4K video processing pipeline on NVIDIA AGX Xavier using DeepStream SDK and TensorRT.

    Manager: Dr. Falko Kuester

    San Diego, California

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant University of California San Diego Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

    Taught Art of Product Engineering (ECE 140A) covering end-to-end software development and hardware integration.

    San Diego, California

  • Embedded System Software Engineer II NVIDIA Oct 2017 - Jul 2019

    Designed I2C Virtualization per ISO26262 functional safety standards for ARM-based SoCs (Xavier/Parker). Optimized bootloader and implemented OS-agnostic GPCDMA library for automotive applications.

    Bengaluru, India

  • Embedded System Software Engineer I NVIDIA Jul 2016 - Oct 2017

    Bengaluru, India

  • Developer Google Summer of Code Apr 2016 - Jul 2016

    Ported FreeBSD SDMMC driver for RTEMS and added DMA library for Raspberry Pi BSP.

    Bengaluru, India ยท Remote

  • Intern NVIDIA Jul 2015 - Dec 2015

    Developed production tools for automotive customers to create OS firmware and boot targets.

    Bengaluru, India

  • Intern Srujana Innovation Center Dec 2014 - Apr 2015

    Developed a low-cost wearable VR headset and Pupil+ platform for eye diagnosis (MIT Media Labs collaboration).

    Hyderabad, India