Summary
Sohan Rudra is a mathematician-turned-roboticist with nine years of research experience developing perception, planning, and navigation systems for real-world robots and autonomous vehicles. Currently a Research Associate at Technische Universität Darmstadt and a PhD student at the PEARL robot lab, he built scalable Object-Goal Navigation infrastructure at Google and formulated a weighted minimum-latency approach that achieved >80% success on real robots. His background blends rigorous math (MSc in Mathematics & Computing from IIT Kharagpur) with hands-on field work on LIDAR/IMU-equipped platforms, safe RL for driving, and multi-view geometry for scale-aware visual measurement. He also created memory-efficient attention mechanisms for transformer-like networks and has repeatedly turned theory into deployable pipelines that improved validation performance by double-digit percentages. Based in Darmstadt, he combines academic depth with practical systems engineering across simulation and hardware stacks.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
Master of Science - MSc, Mathematics and Computing, 8.81/10, Master of Science - MSc, Mathematics and Computing, 8.81/10 at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Computer Science, Computer Science at Rajendra Vidyalaya
English, Hindi, Bengali