Sai Aneesh Suryadevara
Hello! I'm Aneesh, a Machine Learning Engineer at Nuro, where I work on the behavior team for autonomous driving. I graduated from UC San Diego with an MS in ECE, specializing in Intelligent Systems, Robotics, and Control (ISRC). I completed my undergraduate from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, receiving an Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Minor degree in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.
My work spans areas like Reinforcement Learning and Robotics, and I've also explored 3D Computer Vision, NeRF, and Language Alignment for open-world mobile manipulation. During my time at UC San Diego, I was a researcher at the Contextual Robotics Institute, working with Prof. Xiaolong Wang. For my undergraduate thesis, I worked on Deep Reinforcement Learning for the Control of Soft Continuum robots advised by Prof. Abhishek Gupta and Prof. Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan.
I love diving deep into fundamentals and am always curious about the application of these fields in the real world—right now this happens to be in autonomous driving!
Research Interests: Robot Learning, 3D Computer Vision, Embodied AI
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ML Engineer
Apr '25 - Present
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Autonomy Intern
Jul '24 - Dec '24
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M.S. in ECE
Sep '23 - Mar '25
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B.Tech in Mech.
Jul '19 - May '23
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Publications
Research
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Bachelor's Thesis: Control of Continuum Robots Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Guides: Prof. Abhishek Gupta and Prof. Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan
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Implemented a model-free reinforcement learning approach to train control policies for trajectory tracking of a soft continuum robot arm. Developed a custom OpenAI Gym environment and integrated it with VEGA FEM C++ middleware library and ROS to simulate more realistic dynamics.
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Decentralized Multi-Agent Patrolling using Q-Learning
Guides: Prof. Arpita Sinha and Prof. Leena Vachhani
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In this work, we wish to find an optimal patrolling strategy in a multi-agent setting with the constraint of minimum information sharing. Developed patrolling techniques and analyzed their performance using ROS, TraCI and SUMO simulator
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Key Technical Projects
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Flipkart National Competition: Autonomous package delivery bots
IITB Team Lead, National Semi-Finalists
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Developed a system of mobile bots capable of autonomous package sorting using ROS and OpenCV framework, tracking each bot’s pose through ArUco markers.
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e -Yantra Robotics Competition: Autonomous Delivery Drone System
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Simulated a working prototype of an autonomous drone in Gazebo for package delivery during Covid-19. Designed attitude and position (PID) controllers in ROS and implemented A* algorithm for path planning and obstacle avoidance.
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Image-to-Image Translation using CycleGAN and DiscoGAN
GNR638: Deep Learning and Pattern Recognition for Computer Vision
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Implemented and compared the image generation capabilities of GANs and VAEs in PyTorch. Also investigated the performance of DiscoGAN and CycleGAN architectures for style transfer between Pansy and Tigerlily.
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Statistical Solvers using Graph Neural Networks
IE643: Deep Learning Theory and Practice
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Worked on a paper implementation to understand Deep Graph Neural Networks as a new class of solvers for permutation-invariant optimization problems that can be trained without a training set of sample solutions
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Self Driving Car, University of Toronto
MOOC, Coursera
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Built an environment perception stack, using a Semantic Segmentation neural network for lane estimation and object detection to alert the car about the position and category of obstacles
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