Niraj Basnet
Senior Software Engineer, Prediction And Planning at NVIDIA
San Carlos, California, United States
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Top SchoolNiraj Basnet is a senior software engineer specializing in robotics, multimodal AI, and autonomous planning, with eight years of hands-on experience building real-world perception-to-decision pipelines. Currently at NVIDIA on prediction and planning, he previously delivered ROS2-based autonomous service platforms at Volkswagen IECC and high-throughput palletizing/AGV systems for logistics at Dorabot. His work bridges foundation models, vision-language perception, and motion planning to improve in-cabin safety, situational awareness, and adaptive mobility, often focusing on real-time re-planning under uncertainty. He pairs academic rigor—published work on temporal logic and predicate monitoring—with practical production improvements, such as a 40% system performance gain from architecture refactoring. Based in San Carlos, CA, Niraj favors simple, maintainable code and is passionate about embodied intelligence that generalizes across contexts. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of translating research ideas (e.g., CMA-ES raceline optimization, NMPC/MPCC controllers) into deployable robotics stacks.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Robotics, Masters, Computer Science, Robotics at Oregon State UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at IOE Pulchowk Campus
Nepali, English, HindiProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NirajBasnyat/crudstarter
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Laravel Package for crud generation
Contributions:47 releases, 58 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 6 months
NirajBasnyat/nirajbasnyat.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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