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About Me

I'm Surya

Robotic Software Engineer

I am a passionate robotics enthusiast with interest in motion planning, perception, and reinforcement learning. I am proficient in Python, and C++. Currently I am a Graduate Student Researcher at the Existential Robotics Lab at UC San Diego, where my work focuses on building a pipeline for autonomous driving of robot cars using vision guided deep reinforcement learning techniques.

email : stk222@ucsd.edu

place : San Diego, CA

Projects Made

My Experience

Robotics Researcher

Working on autonomous navigation of Ackerman robot using Deep RL.

Bridging the Sim2Real gap using TensorRT on Nvidia Jetson TX2 device.

Existential Robotics Lab | Jun 23 - Present

Graduate Student Researcher

Programming CAN bus protocol on inverter to cycle 200 Ah Tesla module.

Experience in creating battery management circuits for cycle aging.

Center for Energy Research | Jun 23 - Present

Software Engineer

Responsible for Orion WMS across all Saint Gobain India Plant.

Developed computer vision applications for warehouse optimization.

Saint Gobain Glass India | Jul 19 - Nov 21

German Academic Exchange Scholar

Investigated low cost methods to find c-axis orientation of materials.

DAAD WISE Scholarship receiptent 2018.

Technical University, Kaiserslautern | May 18 - Jul 18

Skills & Abilities

My Education

University of California San Diego

Msc in Mechanical Engineering | GPA 3.87/4

Coursework : SLAM, GPU Programming, Computer Vision

Sep 22 - Dec 25

IIITDM Kancheepuram

B.Tech (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering | GPA 9.5/10

Coursework : Linear Algebra, Probability, Machine Learning

Aug 15 - Jul 19 | Institute Gold Medalist