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
Golden, Colorado, United States
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Computer Vision/ Machine Learning Engineer
Carnegie Robotics LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/company/carnegie-robotics
- 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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Software Engineering Intern (SFM Team)
Open Robotics
https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-source-robotics-foundation
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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Student Developer (Google Summer of Code)
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
https://www.linkedin.com/company/birla-institute-of-technology-and-science-pilani
- 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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Research Intern (Undergraduate Thesis)
Larsen & Toubro
https://www.linkedin.com/company/larsen-&-toubro-limited
- 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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Corporate Engineering Intern
Master of Science - MS
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)
Robotic Systems Development 
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Carnegie Mellon University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/carnegie-mellon-university/
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
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
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
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Birla Institute Of Technology and Science, Pilani Dubai
https://www.linkedin.com/school/bitspilanidubai/
Eklavya School Ahmedabad
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.
IORTA
Student Team Lead, Control Systems Lead
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
Accepted for publication in IEEE Xplore post oral presentation at the 2017 9th IEEE-GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCCCE) held in Bahrain
Performance Evaluation of Digital Image Processing and Artificial Neural Networks for Weld Line Detection of Robotic Manipulator
IEEE Xplore
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8448081
50% waiver in tuition fees for freshman year for BITSAT score >250
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani- Dubai Campus
BITS Merit Scholarship
Eight time (2014-2018) consecutive recipient for having a GPA > 9.00/10.00
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani- Dubai Campus
BITS Merit Scholarship
- 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
Monocular Camera Registration in HD Maps
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SP2WDLNN4sSRtmU8DLnEHqNv51wvaFp6/view
- 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.
Organic Monitoring and Weeding Robot
- 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.
3D Reconstruction using Stereo Imagery
- 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.
Optical character recognition and compression using neural networks
- 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.
Smart Oil Spill Solutions Using Drones
http://www.dronesforgood.ae/finals/smart-oil-spill-solution-using-drones
Coursera Course Certificates
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Machine Learning
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https://in.linkedin.com/in/harsh-agarwal-ri18
Bengaluru
Harsh Agarwal
rephrase.ai | MS in Robotics CMU | B.Tech EEE IIT BHU
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihirp1998
Pittsburgh, PA
Mihir Prabhudesai
PhD at CMU Robotics
https://www.linkedin.com/in/neha-boloor
Pittsburgh, PA
Neha Boloor
MSCV at CMU | Ex-Oracle | Best Outgoing Student, NITK
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yash508oza
Pittsburgh, PA
Yash Oza
M.S. (Research) in Robotics @ CMU
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ananyabal
United States
Ananya Bal
Robotics graduate student and Research Assistant at CMU | VIT Alum
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-zhang-39321b72
San Francisco, CA
Aaron Zhang
softball engineer at Sisu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aryanmehra1999
Pittsburgh, PA
Aryan Mehra
Masters in Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University | Salesforce | American Express | BITS Pilani
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbp97
Pittsburgh, PA
Sarvesh Patil
MS in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
https://th.linkedin.com/in/napat-bhahol
Bangkok
Napat Bhaholpolbhayuhasena
Full Stack Software Engineer (Python/Angular/NodeJS) at IBM
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mengyuan-yan-39a648a7
Stanford, CA
Mengyuan Yan
Everyday Robots
https://www.linkedin.com/in/saksham-soni
Cambridge, MA
Saksham Soni
Data Scientist at Dynamic Ideas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/srishti-gupta2
New York City Metropolitan Area
Srishti Gupta
Data Scientist at BlackRock | MIT | IIT Roorkee
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuli-jiang-802a96105
Pittsburgh, PA
Shuli Jiang
Ph.D student at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaleen-gupta
Mountain View, CA
Shaleen Kumar Gupta
Google | CMU LTI | Ex-Directi, Morgan Stanley
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arpit-jain99
Cambridge, MA
Arpit Jain
MBAn candidate at MIT Sloan | IIT Delhi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritwickchaudhry
San Francisco Bay Area
Ritwick Chaudhry
Applied Scientist @ AWS AI  | MSCS @ CMU | Ex-Adobe Research | IIT Bombay
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pbailis
San Francisco Bay Area
Peter Bailis
Founder and CEO at Sisu Data (We are hiring!)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucamingardi
Boston, MA
Luca Mingardi
Research Scientist | MIT 2020, Harvard, Bocconi University
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielletysl
Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area
Gabrielle Tysl
Marketing Specialist at Path Robotics
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Kansas City Metropolitan Area
Kunjan Shah
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