Summary
Ruddra Roychoudhury is a Senior Engineer in AI with 13 years of experience, currently driving vision, graphics, and robotics research at TCS Research where he designed the Teledrive Cognitive Robotics Platform and co-leads the Spatial Intelligence group. He specializes in learning-based computer vision and navigation, with practical Sim2Real success (3rd place iGibson CVPR 2020), multiple filed patents, and peer-reviewed work in biomedical engineering conferences. His background spans applied R&D and production roles—building visual odometry and collision-detection systems for autonomous flight, automating analytics solutions that saved enterprise costs, and coordinating cross-functional research execution. Outside core engineering he’s a top 5% competitive programmer on CodeChef and a seasoned communicator and leader in Toastmasters, having served as Division Director and national public speaking champion. This combination of research rigor, productization experience, and leadership makes him effective at turning cutting-edge perception research into dependable robotics solutions.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad