Srinath Tankasala
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSrinath Tankasala is an Applied Scientist II at Amazon and a Ph.D. candidate-turned-researcher in robotics from UT Austin with nine years of experience building perception and mapping systems for autonomous robots. He focuses on time-optimal viewpoint planning and 3D reconstruction, blending theoretical research with hands-on work building drones and robotic platforms. His background includes internships at AWS and HOVER, engineering at MathWorks, and international research exposure (DAAD-WISE), giving him a strong mix of production-grade implementation and academic rigor. Based in San Diego, he’s seeking industry research roles where he can translate active perception advances into deployable inspection and mapping solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, specializing in Robotics and AI, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, specializing in Robotics and AI at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School, High School at Chettinad VidyashramMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Purdue University
English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil
Github Skills (38)
ros10
mavlink9
autopilot9
simulator9
px49
drones9
rover9
platform-independent9
unreal9
raspberry-pi8
computer-vision8
deep-reinforcement-learning8
control-systems8
qt8
airsim7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sritank/review-assignments
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:24 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
sritank/CS391L_Machine_Learning
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 push in 11 months
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