Summary
Kartik Paigwar is a Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience building autonomous robots that tightly integrate perception, learning, and planning. Currently at Tenstorrent and completing an MS in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at ASU with a 3.93 GPA, he has a strong research-to-product track record spanning MIT CSAIL, IISc, and industry internships. His work includes trajectory-modulating controllers for dynamic legged locomotion, RL-based gait synthesis for low-cost quadrupeds, and perception pipelines for 3D modeling and localization. He combines hands-on systems engineering in ROS and real robots with ML techniques like RNN distillation and VAEs, and has mentored student teams and interns throughout his career. Based in Tempe, AZ, Kartik’s portfolio highlights practical deployments and reproducible open-source tools aimed at scaling agricultural and mobile robotics.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (AI Concentration), 3.93/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (AI Concentration), 3.93/4.0 at Arizona State University
Secondary School Certificate - CBSE, 10 CGPA, Secondary School Certificate - CBSE, 10 CGPA at Khubchand Bajaj Central Public School
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
Higher Secondary School Certificate, Science Stream, 92.92%, Higher Secondary School Certificate, Science Stream, 92.92% at Hislop College, Civil Lines, Nagpur