Summary
Prashant Kumar is a doctoral researcher at Tampere University specializing in radar perception, localization and 3D environment understanding for autonomous mobile machines, with nine years of industry and research experience. His PhD (ESR-7, MORE-ITN) combines academic rigor with industry secondments at Volvo CE and collaboration with Hiab AB, focusing on 4D automotive radar signal processing and self-supervised deep learning for high-resolution perception. He brings a rare blend of probabilistic robotics, continual learning and practical ML engineering—having built distributed training pipelines, automated labelling systems, and model compression for edge devices. Equally comfortable with mathematical models and hands-on Python development, Prashant bridges theory and production for heavy-duty autonomy challenges. Outside formal roles he advises startups on strategy and data science, reflecting a continual drive to translate research into real-world autonomous solutions.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Online Certification Sensor Fusion(Autonomous Systems), Online Certification Sensor Fusion(Autonomous Systems) at Udacity
PhD Automation Science and Engineering, PhD Automation Science and Engineering at Tampere University
Master of Computer Applications - MCA Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Applications, Master of Computer Applications - MCA Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Applications at Pondicherry University
Deep Learning Specialization Deep Learning, Deep Learning Specialization Deep Learning at deeplearning.ai
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics & Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics & Mathematics at Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur
English, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Swedish, French