Mihir Bala
Postdoctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMihir Bala is a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University with 12 years of experience building edge-computing systems that enable autonomy for commercial off-the-shelf drones. He leads development of a drone-agnostic software stack—funded by US Army AI2C and USDOT—that has produced multiple peer-reviewed papers, including runner-up best paper at SEC 2023. His work spans real-time computer vision, cloudlet-based control loops, and GPS-denied localization, combining practical systems engineering with rigorous academic evaluation. Prior industry experience includes a Google Cloud internship where he built power topology verification tools, and multiple CMU research internships that applied SURF/SIFT and CNNs to live video analytics and augmented-reality tooling. Mihir holds a PhD in Computer Science from CMU and a dual background in mathematics and computer science from the University of Michigan, which informs his blend of theoretical rigor and systems pragmatism. Less obvious: he focuses on making advanced autonomy accessible on COTS drones, lowering barriers for real-world deployment rather than only pursuing bespoke hardware solutions.
12 years of coding experience
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
ffmpeg9
javacv9
maven9
computer-vision8
java8
detector7
multimedia7
opencv7
multibox5
sdk3
caffe3
tensorflow2
android2
bandwidth1
analytics1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mihirbala/RTSproto
Dec 2013 - Sep 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 9 months
mihirbala/dronemap
Oct 2014 - Nov 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 13 pushes, 3 issues in 3 years 1 month
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