Siddhant Gangapurwala
Senior Research Scientist at SonyAI
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSiddhant Gangapurwala is a Senior Research Scientist with eight years of experience developing ML-driven control systems for robotic platforms, currently based in Seattle and working at SonyAI. He earned a PhD from the University of Oxford after a BE in Electronics from the University of Mumbai, and his doctoral and postdoctoral work focused on deep reinforcement learning for underactuated robot control. His core strengths span long-horizon planning, online system identification, adaptive control, and loco-manipulation, translating academic advances into applied research at industry scale. At SonyAI he progressed from Research Scientist to Senior Research Scientist, maintaining ties to Oxford as a visiting researcher and blending rigorous experimentation with production-oriented thinking. Notably, his background in embedded systems for mobile robotics gives him a pragmatic edge when bridging low-level hardware constraints with high-level learning algorithms.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning and Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning and Robotics at University of OxfordBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (16)
region8
torque7
robotics7
eigen6
cookiecutter6
python6
reinforcement-learning5
gazebosim5
rover5
snl-applications4
cpp4
simulation4
robotics-simulation4
openscenegraph4
scientific-computing3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gsiddhant/networks_minimal
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Minimal Eigen-based C++ implementation of basic neural networks
Contributions:1 review, 6 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
neural-networkcppneural-networkseigen
gsiddhant/gsiddhant.github.io
Oct 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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