Summary
Sivadinesh Ponrajan is a PhD researcher based in Halmstad with eight years of hands-on experience at the intersection of robotics, AI, and embedded systems, focusing on drone perception and navigation under constrained hardware. He develops soft real-time 3D reconstruction pipelines using NeRF and Gaussian Splitting to enable efficient edge and cloud processing for aerial robots. His background spans research roles and industry experience building full-stack applications, OSINT tools, and IoT hardware, giving him a rare blend of practical engineering and academic rigor. Comfortable with ROS and neural rendering techniques, he has advanced prototype systems for dynamic environment mapping during his master’s thesis and subsequent research placements. Colleagues describe him as a curious, experiment-driven engineer who bridges low-level hardware constraints with cutting-edge neural methods to deliver deployable perception systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Summer School Unfolding Sustainability through Innovative Green Digital Solutions, Summer School Unfolding Sustainability through Innovative Green Digital Solutions at Université de Rennes I
Master of Science - MS Autonomous Systems, Master of Science - MS Autonomous Systems at Eötvös Loránd University
Master of Science - MS Autonomous Systems, Master of Science - MS Autonomous Systems at Polytech Nice Sophia
Bachelor of Technology Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology Information Technology at Sri Sairam Engineering College