Summary
Manoj Bhat is an R&D-driven machine learning and robotics engineer with 10 years of experience building perception, simulation, and autonomy systems across Amazon Robotics, Qualcomm, Rivian, and Anthropic. He holds an MS from Carnegie Mellon and blends deep learning, reinforcement learning, and computer vision expertise with hands-on deployment on edge SoC platforms like NVIDIA Jetson and embedded controllers. At Amazon he led projects on rendering/reconstruction and Perception Radiance Fields for delivery robots, and at Qualcomm he contributed to LIDAR perception and behavior planning for automotive stacks. Comfortable moving projects from research to production, he has a track record of shipping tooling and annotation systems and integrating ROS-based sensor pipelines. Notably, his background spans both academic research and production engineering—teaching and publishing work at CMU and CVPR-adjacent contributions—making him adept at translating math-heavy ideas into deployable robotic systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech ME, Bachelor of Technology - BTech ME at Manipal Institute of Technology
Master of Science Research, Master of Science Research at Carnegie Mellon University
German, English, Hindi, Spanish, Italian, Punjabi