Gokul Narayanan
Senior Research Scientist at Siemens
Emeryville, California, United States
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Top SchoolGokul Narayanan is a Senior Research Scientist with 9 years of experience building robotics, automation, and Physical AI systems, currently leading research at Siemens in Emeryville. He combines hands-on expertise in ROS, C++, Python, reinforcement learning, and motion planning with a track record of deploying real-world mobile and manipulator robots—from India’s first commercial mobile guide robot to advanced manufacturing automation. His work spans end-to-end stacks including perception, SLAM, sensor fusion, control, and high-level task planning, and he has published collaborative research on haptic parameter estimation and within-hand manipulation. Comfortable bridging academic research and industrial products, he often blends model-based planning with model-free RL for long-horizon tasks and practical robustness on hardware.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteEngineer’s Degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at PSG College of Technology12th Computer Science, 12th Computer Science at GS Kalyanasundaram Matriculation School
Telugu, Tamil, English
Github Skills (43)
robotics10
robot10
moveit10
ros-driver10
planning10
autonomous-robots10
motion-planning10
controlling9
ros9
package8
driver7
arduino7
client-library7
state-machine6
python6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gokul-gokz/Robot_trajectory_tracking
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 32 pushes, 5 branches in 5 days
gokul-gokz/gokul-gokz.github.io
May 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:127 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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