Nikhil Thakurdesai
Senior Data Scientist
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNikhil Thakurdesai is a Senior Data Scientist with eight years of experience specializing in computer vision and machine learning, currently at Walmart Global Tech in Bengaluru. He has a strong research foundation from Indiana University’s Computer Vision Lab, contributing to an IROS'21 paper and advancing state-of-the-art single- and multi-view 3D reconstruction through error detection and correction networks. His practical work spans image segmentation, object detection, style transfer, one-shot learning, and applied projects in NLP and reinforcement learning such as review-driven business optimization and autonomous driving in Duckietown. Nikhil has taken models from research to production—improving pipelines’ efficiency by over 50% and integrating ML backends into mobile apps via ONNX and TorchScript. Known for combining rigorous evaluation (notable performance on SceneFlow and KITTI benchmarks) with pragmatic engineering, he bridges academic insights and enterprise-scale ML deployment.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Engineering at KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, VidyaviharMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonSathaye College - IndiaParle Tilak Vidyalaya English Medium School
English, Marathi, HindiGithub contributions (5)
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
nikhil1024/nikhil1024.github.io
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:51 pushes in 1 day
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