Siddharth Nayak
LLM VLM Software Engineer at Waymo
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolSiddharth Nayak is an LLM/VLM software engineer and MIT PhD candidate with eight years of experience applying learning-based methods to autonomy, multiagent systems, and multimodal perception. He develops integrations between large language and vision models and perception stacks at Waymo, building on research at MIT and internships at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs focused on embodied navigation and hybrid planning. His doctoral work advances scalable, interpretable learning-based control for long-horizon, multiagent problems by combining reinforcement learning with optimization and visual-language modeling. Comfortable spanning theory and production, he has a track record of improving practical systems—from ObjectRL for enhanced detection to RL-driven packing heuristics—and publishes in top workshops. Based in Mountain View, he blends rigorous AeroAstro autonomy training with hands-on systems engineering to push multimodal agents toward real-world deployment.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasDoctor of Philosophy - PhD AeroAstro (Autonomy), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD AeroAstro (Autonomy) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Konkani, Marathi, Hindi, German, French
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Github Skills (81)
hyperparameter-tuning10
keras10
robotics9
telegram-bot9
ai9
api9
autonomous-robots9
python9
webots9
deep-learning9
generative9
collaboration9
lifecycle9
gazebosim9
simulation9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nsidn98/Reinforcement-Learning-for-Object-Detection
Dec 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 294 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
nsidn98/PyThor
May 2020 - Jun 2021
Template for projects in PyTorch powered with PyTorch Lightning, Telegrad and MLflow. Get updates on mobile and streamline PyTorch code for research.
Contributions:49 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year
pytorchtelegram-botstreamlinepythondeep-learning
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