Ishaan Paranjape
Lecturer at University of California, Santa Cruz
California, United States
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Top SchoolIshaan Paranjape is a Lecturer and PhD researcher specializing in verification and scenario generation for autonomous vehicle software, leveraging game engines like Unreal to build procedural road networks and AI-driven agents for perception and motion-planning validation. With eight years of experience spanning academic instruction and industry internships at Ford Next, he blends deep technical research in simulation and evolutionary scenario generation with hands-on teaching across programming, game technologies, and computer architecture. He leads and mentors mixed graduate and undergraduate teams in the Augmented Design Lab, translating research prototypes into practical testing pipelines for AV stacks. Notably, his work bridges SUMO/CARLA data with Unreal Engine geometry, enabling more realistic, procedurally generated testbeds that stress AV systems in ways conventional simulators do not. Based in California, he is committed to advancing intelligent transportation, robotics, software verification, and digital games through reproducible, education-focused research.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education, 90%, Indian Certificate of Secondary Education, 90% at Hutchings High SchoolIndian School Certificate, Science, 82%, Indian School Certificate, Science, 82% at St. Mary's SchoolUniversity of California Santa CruzBachelor of Technology, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology - Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (47)
simulation10
imitation-learning10
artificial-intelligence10
unreal-engine-410
simulator10
autonomous-vehicles10
self-driving-car10
unreal10
ai10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
computer-vision10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
airsim10
carla10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ishaan95/ishaan95.github.io
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
A content-first, sliding sidebar theme for Jekyll.
Contributions:102 pushes in 2 years 9 months
sidebar-themesidebarjekylljekyll-themesliding
AugmentedDesignLab/Sumo2Unreal
Sep 2018 - Mar 2020
Convert Sumo .net.xml road network files into road geometry inside Unreal
Contributions:148 commits, 4 PRs, 92 pushes in 1 year 5 months
road-networkunreal-engineunrealroadxml
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