Professional Experience
Lead Consultant (Autonomous Vehicles & Robotics)
HCLTech America
Feb 2026 – Present
- Leading end-to-end autonomous vehicle and robotics solutions, architecting systems that balance latency, safety, and compute constraints across sensors, perception, and decision-making
- Exploring VLA models including NVIDIA Alpamayo for advanced robotics perception and autonomous vehicle vision tasks, with simulations in CARLA, IsaacSim and Omniverse
- Leading the Vision Pilot project within the Autoware Foundation, driving the transition from modular architectures to end-to-end systems, with responsibility for model development, dataset curation, pipeline optimization, and production releases.
Research Engineer (Embedded Systems, Sensor Engineering)
MultiCoreWare
2024 – 2026
- Contributing to Autoware Foundation on real-time obstacle perception, working on vision-based segmentation, depth estimation, and path prediction for autonomous driving. Focused on training, data auditing, model quantization via ONNX Runtime for real-time inference.
- Built LLVM-MCToll pipelines for static ARM↔️x86 binary translation; validated APKs in Android Studio
- Developed Linux kernel modules for ACPI device enumeration and debugged low-level I2C/UART drivers
Assistant Research Scientist
New York University
2024
- Developed LLM-guided motion planning that reduced computational nodes by 27.1%
- Built multi-agent architectures for high-dynamic vehicle maneuvers using physics-informed control
- Improved maneuver success rates to 90% through simulation validation of LLM-planner outputs
Robotics Software Engineer
TRC Robotics
2023 – 2024
- Deployed ROS-based robotics infrastructure using Docker/Podman containers and Grafana dashboards
- Managed secure access via Keycloak and improved CI/CD for real-time robotic system updates
- Migrated robotic backend services and monitored system health using custom metrics pipelines