Barza Nisar
PHD Candidate
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBarza Nisar is a PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Toronto with eight years of experience in robotic perception and state estimation for autonomous systems. His research focuses on multi-sensor, multi-task self-supervised foundation models for 3D scene perception—spanning detection, segmentation, occupancy prediction, tracking and prediction for autonomous vehicles. He has practical experience building real-time visual-inertial localization systems at the University of Zurich and applied systems and control work in industry and research internships, including PX4 integration for embedded platforms. With an MS from ETH Zurich and a flawless undergraduate record, he blends strong theoretical foundations with hands-on firmware and perception engineering. Open to PhD internships and visiting researcher roles, he brings a track record of turning optimization-based algorithms into real-time robotic systems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, CGPA 4.0/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, CGPA 4.0/4.0 at Sabanci UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at University of TorontoMaster of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at ETH ZurichHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Urdu, Hindi, Turkish
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Github Skills (85)
px410
rover10
ros10
autopilot10
qt10
mavlink10
linux10
user-guide10
drones10
android10
lidar10
crazyflie10
station9
convolutional-neural-networks9
toolbox9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
barzanisar/OpenPCDet
Mar 2022 - Jan 2025
OpenPCDet Toolbox for LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection.
Contributions:526 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 11 months
toolboxobject-detectioncomputer-vision3d-object-detectionopenpcdet
barzanisar/DepthContrast
Jun 2022 - Jan 2025
DepthContrast self-supervised learning for 3D
Contributions:647 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 8 months
pytorchsupervised-learningsuperviseddeep-learningcomputer-vision
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