Shounak Das
Senior Engineer at Qualcomm
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShounak Das is a Senior Engineer and Ph.D. candidate in Robotics at West Virginia University with six years of experience focused on state estimation, sensor fusion, and robust SLAM/GNSS algorithms. Now at Qualcomm, he applies academic research to real-world sensing challenges, having previously interned there on sensor fusion projects. His background in aerospace engineering from IIT Kharagpur and IIEST Shibpur gives him a strong dynamics and systems foundation that informs his approach to robot localization. Comfortable bridging theory and implementation, he specializes in making estimation methods resilient to real-world noise and failure modes. Notably, he balances deep research with production-oriented engineering, translating Ph.D.-level ideas into deployable solutions for navigation systems.
6 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at West Virginia UniversityBachelor's Degree, Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), ShibpurMaster's Degree, Aerospace Engineering, Master's Degree, Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English
Github Skills (41)
pattern-recognition10
sparse10
hierarchical10
3d-mapping10
smoothing10
factor10
lidar10
slam10
robotics9
sam9
gtsam9
behavior9
ros9
odometry8
rviz7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wvu-navLab/gnss-ins-zupt
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 2 pushes in 10 months
shounak873/LIO_SAM_Mining_Project
Mar 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:151 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 2 months
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