💼 Work Experience

Senior Research Engineer (AI/ML)

NVIDIA • New Jersey
July 2022 - Present
  • Developing Special Scenario Recorder (SSR) for collecting rare data events across 1k+ fleet of customer vehicles. The system fuses conventional vehicle signals (speed, acceleration, GPS etc.) with world model embeddings to recognize rare scenarios.
  • Developed simulation software (open and closed loop) for testing SSR based offline data retrieval system.
  • Implemented Qwen-based multi-modal data retrieval system that utilizes contrastive learning to align text (query) embeddings with video (document) embeddings, resulting in 5% improvement in precision.
  • Developed custom data sampling strategy reducing training dataset size by 50% while maintaining 95% of the original performance.
  • Developed DL-based data collection strategy by exploiting perception data similarity between different geographical regions.

Data Scientist Intern

Microsoft • Seattle
May - July 2021
  • Developed a deep learning framework to evaluate the impact of map features such as roads, parks, water bodies, buildings, and markers on user preferences for various mapping platforms
  • Achieved a 5% increase in user preference for Bing Maps over competing platforms

🎓 Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering

New York University
May 2022

B.E., Electronics and Communication

Manipal University
May 2016