Ankit Vora
Technical Lead Manager - Localization
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkit Vora is a Technical Lead Manager specializing in localization and mapping for autonomous vehicles, with a decade of experience advancing robotics and self-driving systems at Ford Motor Company. He blends hands-on research from his MSE at the University of Pennsylvania with practical product delivery, progressing from autonomous vehicles engineer to managing cross-functional calibration, localization, and mapping teams. Based in Detroit, he focuses on robust SLAM, 3D mapping and navigation for mobile and aerial robots, and has applied those skills across industry and academia. Ankit also contributes to the robotics research community as an associate editor for top journals and serves on multiple university industrial advisory boards, reflecting a commitment to shaping both research and curricula. Beyond corporate programs, his portfolio showcases reproducible research and tools for intelligent robot development, signaling a practitioner who bridges prototyping and production. Colleagues find him equally at home in simulation stacks like ROS/Gazebo and in leading teams to deliver real-world autonomous capabilities.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Birla High SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering at M.S.Ramaiah Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science in Engineering (MSE), Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Master of Science in Engineering (MSE), Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at University of Pennsylvania
Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, English
Github Skills (48)
occupancy-grid-map10
autonomous-vehicles10
autonomy10
self-driving-car10
apollo10
lidar10
autonomous-driving10
machine-learning9
stereo9
rgb9
open3d8
3d-reconstruction8
slam8
point-cloud8
kinect8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Ford/AVData
Jan 2020 - Jun 2021
Autonomous Vehicle Seasonal Dataset
Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 4 months
autonomousdatasetseasonalvehicleoccupancy-grid-map
ankitvora7/CS-188
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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