Ajay Unagar
Senior Robotics Machine Learning Engineer at Tesla
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAjay Unagar is a Senior Robotics Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building computer vision and reinforcement learning systems, currently teaching Tesla’s Optimus robots a wide range of real-world tasks. He holds an MSc in Computational Science from ETH Zurich where he worked on camera-pose estimation, DG-CNN navigation cost predictors, and digital-twin-based long-range path planning for legged robots. Prior roles span applied 3D computer vision at Geomagical Labs, continual learning research at IBM, and quantitative ML-driven strategy development in finance, reflecting a rare blend of research rigor and production impact. Based in Palo Alto, he combines simulation-first development (NVIDIA Isaac Sim) with field-focused robot learning, enabling scalable policy-conditioned planning. Notably, his background bridges civil engineering origins with advanced robotics, giving him a multidisciplinary perspective on physical-world autonomy.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeMSc Computational Science (Robotics), MSc Computational Science (Robotics) at ETH Zürich
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (34)
depth-estimation10
rendering10
computer-graphics10
visualization9
pytorch9
python9
odometry9
cluster-computing9
open3d9
volume-rendering9
opengl9
gpu9
mesh-processing9
3d-reconstruction9
point-cloud9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aunagar/FeatureMetric-PnP
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:103 commits in 4 months
aunagar/RL-Battery-Calibration
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 7 months
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