Dharshan R
Senior Robotics And Autonomy Research Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolDharshan R is a Senior Robotics and Autonomy Research Engineer with nine years of experience designing and deploying learning-based control systems for aerospace and robotic platforms. Based in Palo Alto, he has advanced from GNC roles at Northrop Grumman to leading autonomy research at Lockheed Martin, blending classical control with modern deep reinforcement learning. His MS in Perception & Robotics from Georgia Tech and academic work on safe learning, guided policy search, and tensegrity robots underpin practical implementations on embedded hardware using ROS, TensorFlow, and Python. He’s applied RL to enhance PID controllers and developed algorithms that infer governing equations for educational flight platforms, with a patent-pending textbook project aimed at bringing adaptive learning to market. Known for tackling highly nonlinear dynamical systems and safety-critical constraints, he bridges research and engineering to move prototypes into real-world testbeds. Colleagues describe him as intellectually curious—a practitioner who embraces the idea that the more you learn, the more you realize there’s to discover.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Perception & Robotics, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Perception & Robotics, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHighland High school
English, Tamil, Russian, French
Github Skills (16)
deep-learning4
machine-learning4
object-detection4
neural-network3
tensorflow3
react2
nodejs2
simulation1
raspberry1
raspberry-pi1
pirate1
ompl1
gamma1
moveit1
drones1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Dhrams/idek
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
A neural net I think
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 47 pushes in 11 months
deep-learningneural-networkthinkneural-networks
Dhrams/pyrant
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
raspberry-piraspberrydronesraspberrypipirate
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