Nirav Savaliya
Senior Research Engineer at Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolNirav Savaliya is a Senior Research Engineer specializing in mapping, localization, and spatial perception with nine years of experience applying these skills to autonomous vehicles and embodied AI. Based in San Jose, he leads multi-modal spatial perception and generalized robot navigation efforts at Honda Research Institute after progressing through roles focused on city-scale visual mapping and BEV road-scene understanding. He holds a master's in Robotics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (4.0 GPA) and has practical research experience spanning visual-inertial odometry, long-term seasonal localization, active SLAM with reinforcement learning, and quadruped gait planning. Nirav combines rigorous academic training with hands-on system-building in real-world robotics stacks, often bridging perception research to deployable navigation solutions. He brings a strong focus on scalable mapping and localization that supports both autonomous driving and AR/VR applications, and is known for integrating multi-sensor modalities to improve long-term robustness.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 4.0, Master's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 4.0 at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBachelor’s Degree, Mechatronics Engineering, 8.4/10, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechatronics Engineering, 8.4/10 at The LNM Institute of Information Technology
Github Skills (17)
depth-estimation7
keyframe6
stereo6
algorithms6
reinforcement-learning6
intrinsics5
autonomous-driving3
zillow3
slam3
python2
cpp2
transformer2
cuda1
high-performance1
gpu-acceleration1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Astronirav/Omnidirectional-Static-Walking-of-Quadruped
Mar 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
Astronirav/astronirav.github.io
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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