Aaditya Saraiya
Computer Vision/ Machine Learning Engineer at Outrider
CV/ML engineer at Outrider.ai | CMU Robotics
A robotics graduate working as a Computer Vision engineer in the self driving space.
Outrider
https://www.linkedin.com/company/outridertech
Computer Vision/ Machine Learning Engineer
Golden, Colorado, United States
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Carnegie Robotics LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/company/carnegie-robotics
Software Engineering Intern (SFM Team)
- Developed a machine learning-based approach to predict potential image-matching candidates for 3D structure estimation based on visual similarity.
- Designed a benchmarking tool based on a Hierarchical Visual Bag of Words pipeline using C++ to validate approach.
- Tested pipeline on a diverse set of image logs and achieved precision rate > 90% and accuracy > 75%.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Open Robotics
https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-source-robotics-foundation
Student Developer (Google Summer of Code)
The Google Summer of Code project was successfully completed under the mentorship of ROS Industrial and SouthWestern Research Institute (SwRI). 

- Developed a ROS package for utilizing a 3-D reconstruction (KinectFusion) based pipeline for intelligent exploration of robotic workcells. 
- Provides a smart alternative to current methods of using manually created URDF models.
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Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
https://www.linkedin.com/company/birla-institute-of-technology-and-science-pilani
Research Intern (Undergraduate Thesis)
- Designed a real-time interface for vision-based navigation and obstacle avoidance for a two-wheeled differential drive robot using MATLAB and ROS.
- Developed modified A* algorithm using a weighted priority scheduler for multi-object mobile manipulation.
Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIS) lab
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Larsen & Toubro
https://www.linkedin.com/company/larsen-&-toubro-limited
Corporate Engineering Intern
- Studied factors involved in the design of high-voltage transmission lines and protection schemes of 415 KV substations using single line diagrams.
- Analyzed functioning of supply chain management, tendering and contracts management, quality-environment-safety-health (QEHS) departments for recent company projects.
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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Robotic Systems Development 
Master of Science - MS
Carnegie Mellon University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/carnegie-mellon-university/
Selected Coursework: 
16822: Geometry Based Methods in Vision
16833: Robot Localization and Mapping  
16720: Computer Vision 
16823: Physics-Based Methods in Vision (ongoing)
16824: Visual Learning and Recognition (ongoing)
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Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
Birla Institute Of Technology and Science, Pilani Dubai
https://www.linkedin.com/school/bitspilanidubai/
Selected Coursework:

Cognition: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic 
Control Theory: Modern Control Systems, Computer Based Control Systems
Computer Vision: Digital Image Processing 
Maths: Optimisation, Maths-I, III (Differential calculus), Maths-II (Linear algebra and Complex Analysis), Probability and Statistics   
Electronics: Power Electronics, Analog Electronics, Microprocessors and Interfacing
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Eklavya School Ahmedabad
IORTA
Student Team Lead, Control Systems Lead
IORTA is a student-run robotics team of BITS Pilani Dubai Campus. The club deals with various aspects of Robotics like path-planning, computer vision, control systems and mechanical design. My responsibilities included leading a 15-member inter-disciplinary team to create robotic solutions aimed to solve human problems in critical situations.
Vision-Based Forward Kinematics Using ANN for Weld Line Detection with a 5-DOF Robot Manipulator
Springer, Singapore
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-8237-5_30
Performance Evaluation of Digital Image Processing and Artificial Neural Networks for Weld Line Detection of Robotic Manipulator
IEEE Xplore
Accepted for publication in IEEE Xplore post oral presentation at the 2017 9th IEEE-GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCCCE) held in Bahrain
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8448081
BITS Merit Scholarship
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani- Dubai Campus
50% waiver in tuition fees for freshman year for BITSAT score >250
BITS Merit Scholarship
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani- Dubai Campus
Eight time (2014-2018) consecutive recipient for having a GPA > 9.00/10.00
Monocular Camera Registration in HD Maps
- Implemented relative scale estimation between DSO SLAM and LIDAR point clouds using FPFH features.
- Developed a RANSAC-based global registration pipeline coupled with point-to-plane ICP for matching camera and LIDAR point clouds
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SP2WDLNN4sSRtmU8DLnEHqNv51wvaFp6/view
Organic Monitoring and Weeding Robot
- Collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of 5 students to develop an autonomous mobile robot platform to monitor plant health on Rivendale Farms.
- Designed a particle filter to fuse visual odometry and 3D LIDAR data for in-row localization and row switching.
- Successfully traversed 30 m crop rows and switched row 80% of the time without damaging plants.
- Designed software architecture for monitoring pipeline including generation of geo-tagged visual data associated with annotations of plant health.
3D Reconstruction using Stereo Imagery
- Implemented automatic intrinsic calibration using K-means clustering for vanishing point estimation.
- Implemented 7-point algorithm to estimate fundamental and essential matrix from feature correspondences.
- Developed a dense plane reconstruction pipeline using feature-based triangulation and convex hull estimation.
Optical character recognition and compression using neural networks
- Implemented a fully connected network with back-propagation algorithm from scratch with a classification accuracy of 80% on the NIST36 dataset.
- Designed an auto-encoder network for image compression and compared the performance with PCA. 
- Implemented a Convolutional Neural network (CNN) model for character recognition with an accuracy of 82% using Pytorch.
Smart Oil Spill Solutions Using Drones
- Designed a quadcopter platform which uses trajectory planning and image processing algorithms to monitor and clean oils spills. A motorized oil absorbing pad was created to cater to large-scale oil spills. 
- An SVM based Visual Bag of Words classifier was utilized to detect oil spill locations. 
- The concept was demonstrated at 'The UAE Drones For Good Award 2017' and secured 6th Position (Finalist) in the National category, which had 1000+ participants with an active participation of 150+ countries for 2016-2017 with a prize money of AED 1 million for the national winners and USD 1 million for the international winners.
http://www.dronesforgood.ae/finals/smart-oil-spill-solution-using-drones
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Machine Learning
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Coursera Course Certificates
https://in.linkedin.com/in/harsh-agarwal-ri18
Harsh Agarwal
rephrase.ai | MS in Robotics CMU | B.Tech EEE IIT BHU
Bengaluru
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihirp1998
Mihir Prabhudesai
PhD at CMU Robotics
Pittsburgh, PA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/neha-boloor
Neha Boloor
MSCV at CMU | Ex-Oracle | Best Outgoing Student, NITK
Pittsburgh, PA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yash508oza
Yash Oza
M.S. (Research) in Robotics @ CMU
Pittsburgh, PA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ananyabal
Ananya Bal
Robotics graduate student and Research Assistant at CMU | VIT Alum
United States
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-zhang-39321b72
Aaron Zhang
softball engineer at Sisu
San Francisco, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aryanmehra1999
Aryan Mehra
Masters in Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University | Salesforce | American Express | BITS Pilani
Pittsburgh, PA
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Sarvesh Patil
MS in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
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Napat Bhaholpolbhayuhasena
Full Stack Software Engineer (Python/Angular/NodeJS) at IBM
Bangkok
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Mengyuan Yan
Everyday Robots
Stanford, CA
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Saksham Soni
Data Scientist at Dynamic Ideas
Cambridge, MA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/srishti-gupta2
Srishti Gupta
Data Scientist at BlackRock | MIT | IIT Roorkee
New York City Metropolitan Area
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Shuli Jiang
Ph.D student at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
Pittsburgh, PA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaleen-gupta
Shaleen Kumar Gupta
Google | CMU LTI | Ex-Directi, Morgan Stanley
Mountain View, CA
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Arpit Jain
MBAn candidate at MIT Sloan | IIT Delhi
Cambridge, MA
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Ritwick Chaudhry
Applied Scientist @ AWS AI  | MSCS @ CMU | Ex-Adobe Research | IIT Bombay
San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pbailis
Peter Bailis
Founder and CEO at Sisu Data (We are hiring!)
San Francisco Bay Area
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Luca Mingardi
Research Scientist | MIT 2020, Harvard, Bocconi University
Boston, MA
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Gabrielle Tysl
Marketing Specialist at Path Robotics
Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area
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Kunjan Shah
I help companies create purpose-driven solutions to the hard problems in IIoT, Healthcare, eCommerce, Mobile, and the Cloud. Let's Solve Forward!
Kansas City Metropolitan Area