Shubodh Sai
Independent Researcher at fexponential
Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolShubodh Sai is an independent researcher specializing in robot learning with eight years of experience spanning academic research and applied autonomy. He completed an MS by Research at IIIT Hyderabad, contributing to cross-modal localization and foundation-model adaptations (SAM, DINO) with publications at ECCV, ICRA, and WACV, and has since moved into independent research and applied robot learning. His background blends mechanical engineering (BITS Pilani) with deep learning for perception and navigation, including work on LiDAR-image pretraining and unsupervised aggregation for visual place recognition. He has experience leading teaching and engineering efforts—serving as head TA for Mobile Robotics and co-founding Sally Robotics to build AI-assisted navigation for Indian roads. Beyond publications, he experiments publicly through a research blog and maintains an active presence documenting research outputs and ideas. Practical, research-driven, and product-aware, he focuses on bridging foundational models with deployable robotic systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMS by Research, Computer Science, MS by Research, Computer Science at IIIT Hyderabad
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (90)
simulator10
robotics10
animation10
image-matching10
computer-vision10
feature-matching10
g2o10
manhattan10
image-retrieval10
optical-flow10
structure-from-motion10
slam10
ai9
localization9
high-performance9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RoboticsIIITH/summer-sessions-2020
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Series of lectures and hands-on tutorials organized to familiarize new lab entrants with the fundamental areas of robotics research.
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year
hands-onroboticshandsfundamentalareas
Shubodh/Hierarchical-Localization
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Visual localization made easy with hloc
Contributions:91 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
localizationvisual-localization
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