Summary
Udaikaran Singh is a software engineer with nine years of experience building production ML and perception systems, currently contributing to Waymo’s perception team. He previously led video indexing and retrieval improvements at TikTok, introducing LLMs for content-quality measurement, OCR enhancements, and a redesigned offline pipeline that cut runtime from 30 to 4 hours while drastically reducing resource needs. His work spans multimodal modeling, self-supervised methods, and practical ML engineering—shipable improvements rather than just research prototypes. Trained with an MS in Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon and a BS in Computer Science from UCSD, he blends academic rigor with hands-on system optimization. Known for improving retrieval coverage by 20% in experiments and boosting detection accuracy in safety models, he focuses on measurable gains at scale. Based in San Jose, he brings a cross-disciplinary perspective from research, teaching, and industry internships into applied perception and search systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Bellarmine College Preparatory
Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University
Hindi, Punjabi, English