🎓 Master’s in Robotics Engineering, University of Maryland (GPA: 3.88/4.0)
🤖 Robotics & Autonomy | 🖥️ Computer Vision & AI/ML | ☁️ Cloud & MLOps | 🚀 Embedded Systems
Current: Machine Learning Engineer @ Squark AI
Ex-UMD Teaching & Research Assistant | Ex-Brahm Works (Design Engineer) | Ex-Tata Technologies (GET Software Engineer)
I’m passionate about building intelligent robotic and AI systems that bridge the gap between research and deployment.
Currently, I am diving deep into Machine Learning, Perception, and Motion Planning for Robots, with a focus on taking ideas from simulation to deployment in real-world environments.
📫 Contact Me:
📧 Email: swarajmr@umd.edu | swarajmrao@gmail.com
📞 Phone: +1 (240)-351-4782
🌐 Portfolio: www.swarajmrao.com
💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/swarajmrao
🖥️ GitHub: github.com/SwarajMundruppadyRao
- 🔥 3D UAV Scene Reconstruction & Fire Detection – PX4 + VOXL2 + ROS2 pipeline with SfM/MVS; onboard YOLO inference for fire/human detection.
- 📦 End-to-End MLOps Observability – AWS EKS + Docker/Helm + OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana dashboards, CI/CD with rollback.
- 🧠 Vision-Language Model (PaliGemma-based) – Custom CLIP + KV caching architecture, 35% faster inference.
- 👁️ Autism Detection via Eye Tracking – CNN + LSTM + Transformer pipeline (PyTorch), 88.9% accuracy, AWS web deployment.
- 🌱 Agricultural Perception System – Weed/pest detection with RGB-D cameras, 96.4% mAP, deployed on NVIDIA Jetson.
- 🤿 Differentiable Simulation for Soft Robots – DiffPD/DiffAqua pipelines with morphology + controller optimization, 2× faster convergence.
🔭 Always open to collaborating on robotics, perception, and AI/ML projects that push technology forward.