Pranay Thangeda
Applied Scientist II at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPranay Thangeda is an applied scientist with a decade of experience building learning-driven, deployable robotic systems, currently developing and scaling reinforcement and imitation learning solutions for contact-rich bimanual manipulation at Amazon Robotics. With a PhD track at UIUC and research stints at NASA and Corteva, he bridges academic rigor and industrial impact, turning cutting-edge robot learning into production-ready systems. He focuses on optimal planning and robot learning, bringing expertise in both algorithm design and real-world system integration to solve manipulation challenges at Amazon scale. Based in Cambridge, MA, Pranay combines deep research experience with hands-on deployment, often tackling problems where control, perception, and learning must tightly interoperate.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering at Mahindra UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (25)
overpass-api10
transport10
networkx10
spatial-data10
osmnx10
geography10
controlled10
spatial10
openstreetmap9
graph-algorithms9
python9
geospatial9
spatial-analysis9
gis9
urban-planning9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pthangeda/consumption-MDP
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:84 pushes, 12 branches in 9 months
FiMDP/FiMDPEnv
Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
Simulation environments for FiMDP Package
Contributions:6 releases, 43 commits, 5 PRs in 6 months
simulation
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