Rishav Agarwal
Perception Engineer at Gritt Robotics
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishav Agarwal is a Perception Engineer with 12 years of experience building production-grade perception and multimodal AI systems for robotic manipulation, currently focused on closed-loop pick-and-place of heavy objects in outdoor settings at Gritt Robotics. He has deep expertise in vision and geometry-aware models, having developed transformer-based foundational vision models for pose estimation and custom CUDA modules to accelerate core operations. Rishav has repeatedly bridged research and engineering—designing large-scale synthetic data pipelines, implementing models across TensorFlow, JAX and PyTorch, and optimizing inference with TensorRT and XLA. His background spans applied ML and data engineering work across startups and research institutions, from speeding up convNets at Akasha Imaging to large-scale ETL and analytics at EXL. He also teaches and mentors, with TA roles in computer science and ethics, and holds a Master’s in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and a BS from IIT Kanpur. Outside work, he writes about AI on Medium and blends economics-trained rigor with hands-on robotics systems engineering.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurMaster's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (70)
coco10
object-detection10
stargan10
api9
heatmap9
vision-transformer9
faster-rcnn9
pytorch9
transformer8
retinanet8
mask-rcnn8
openmmlab8
python-app8
bug-reporting8
instance-segmentation8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rra94/blog
Mar 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
arashwan/matrixnet
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
PyTorch implementation for MatrixNet object detection architecture.
Contributions:30 commits, 5 PRs, 17 pushes in 10 months
object-detectionpytorch
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