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.
9 years of coding experience
5 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
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (79)
gesture10
gesture-detection10
signal-processing10
imu10
principal-component-analysis10
arduino-uno10
gesture-recognition10
integer-programming10
robotics9
telegram-bot9
ai9
hyperparameter-tuning9
python9
deep-learning9
pytorch9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nsidn98/Computational-Neuroscience
Aug 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
nsidn98/nsidn98.github.io
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
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Contributions:418 commits, 456 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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