Sakthivel Sivaraman is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with over seven years focused on computer vision and safety-critical interior sensing for autonomous vehicles at NVIDIA, and a decade of engineering experience overall. He bridges research and production, owning features end-to-end from sensor and data strategy through scalable pipeline design, model training, edge optimization, and embedded deployment. His work enabled real-world rollouts like child presence detection, pose and gesture recognition, drowsiness and hands-on-wheel detection, demonstrating expertise in both algorithmic development and systems engineering. Trained as a robotics MSc at UPenn and with early industry experience across aerospace and process engineering, he combines rigorous academic foundations with practical hardware-aware ML delivery. Based in California, he brings a knack for translating complex sensing requirements into reliable, safety-focused products at scale.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Master of Science (MSc) Robotics, Master of Science (MSc) Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
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Sakthivel Sivaraman - Senior Machine Learning Engineer at NVIDIA