Rohan Saxena
Senior Software Engineer at Figure
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolRohan Saxena is a Senior Software Engineer and roboticist with 9 years of experience building perception and AI systems for autonomous robots, from tiny drones to large vehicles. He holds an MS in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon and has shipped production sensor-fusion and plant-level perception pipelines that process terabytes daily for agricultural robotics. His work spans computer vision, ML, SLAM, and embedded inference—optimizing networks for edge deployment and inventing hyper-realistic multi-spectral simulators using GANs. He has collaborated with industry leaders (OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft) and contributed research adopted in real products and presented to senior technical leadership at Microsoft. Notably, he scaled low-cost autonomy early in his career by leading a student-built autonomous driving team to level-2 capability on a shoestring budget, reflecting a practical knack for turning research into field-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceSharada Mandir SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Machine Learning, 4.0 / 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Machine Learning, 4.0 / 4.0 at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi, Konkani
Stackoverflow
3,253reputation
631kreached
16answers
12questions
Github Skills (42)
python10
machine-learning10
ninja9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
deep-learning9
deep-neural-networks8
ml8
face8
data-science8
pose8
caffe7
optical-flow7
computer-vision6
cpp6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
saxenarohan97/WolframResearch
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
saxenarohan97/Firebird-V
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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