Akshay Khatri
ML Nuro Ex ML at Kodiak
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Khatri is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience applying deep learning, computer vision, and NLP to real-world robotics and autonomous systems. Currently at Nuro in Mountain View, he leads autonomous driving software efforts, following a prior role as Perception Lead at Kodiak Robotics where he built image-based ML models and spearheaded self-supervised pretraining pipelines to improve vision backbones without extra labeled data. His background spans ML engineering at Primer AI and rigorous academic research at Columbia University, where he explored unsupervised deep learning, GANs/VAEs, Bayesian modeling, and neuroscience-inspired data analysis. He has a proven track record of taking research concepts to production, including CNN-driven driver behavior prediction at Tesla Autopilot CV and robust data preprocessing to handle skewed class distributions. Based in the Bay Area, he combines hands-on development with teaching and mentorship from his roles as a Teaching Assistant, holding an MS in Computer Science from Columbia and a BE in Computer Engineering from Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology. He brings a rare blend of robotics perception, scalable ML infrastructure, and a curiosity-driven approach to solving cross-domain AI challenges.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering, 8.72/10, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering, 8.72/10 at Vivekanand Education Society's Institute Of TechnologyMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
English, Hindi
Github Skills (21)
generative10
word-embeddings9
sequence-labeling9
probabilistic9
simple-framework9
nlp9
bayesian-methods9
natural-language-processing8
machine-learning8
statistics8
language-processing8
named-entity-recognition8
probabilistic-programming8
pytorch8
tensorflow7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
akshaykhatri639/coursework
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
akshaykhatri639/edward
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
deep-learningprobabilistic-modelinginferencemachine-learningruns
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