Nikhil Nakhate
Technical Lead at Cruise
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Nakhate is a Technical Lead in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience specializing in embodied AI, computer vision, and perception for autonomous systems. He has progressed from research roles and internships at Tesla and university labs to senior and staff engineering positions at Lucid Motors and Cruise, where he now leads technical efforts in perception and calibration. His expertise spans structured light, camera calibration, deep learning and LiDAR fusion, bringing both research rigor and production-grade engineering to safety-critical autonomy stacks. Known for bridging algorithmic innovation with deployable systems, he has a track record of shipping perception features in high-stakes automotive environments. Nikhil combines a strong academic foundation from NIT Calicut and UW–Madison with hands-on experience from startups and industry, making him adept at moving ideas from prototype to road-ready.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Calicut
English, Marathi, Hindi, Kannada, German
Github Skills (23)
3d-lane-detection9
3d-object-detection8
nvidia7
point-cloud7
autonomous-driving5
object-detection5
computer-vision5
deep-learning5
robotics4
pytorch4
inference4
tensorrt4
segmentation4
keypoint3
diffusion-models3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nikhil-nakhate/LiDARVoxel
Dec 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
nikhil-nakhate/lerobot
Jun 2025 - Jun 2026
🤗 LeRobot: Making AI for Robotics more accessible with end-to-end learning
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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