Vignesh Prasad
Postdoctoral Researcher at Telekinesis
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolVignesh Prasad is a postdoctoral researcher at TU Darmstadt's PEARL lab with 11 years of experience applying robot learning, computer vision, and human-robot interaction to real-world manipulation and teleoperation problems. He leads work packages for Horizon Europe projects (ARISE, MANiBOT) and focuses on bimanual and mobile manipulation, robot perception, and LLM-driven task planning. Prior roles span industry research at TCS and consulting on vision-based robot learning, skeleton tracking, and temporal action segmentation, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and product-minded engineering. Vignesh earned a PhD (Magna cum laude) from TU Darmstadt after an MS and BTech from IIIT Hyderabad, and has international exposure from an exchange at Hiroshima University. He pairs deep imitation-learning expertise from his doctoral work with hands-on system building—from teleoperation pipelines to perception stacks—making him effective at turning research into deployable robotics solutions. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges meticulous experimental science with pragmatic supervision of multi-institution projects.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität DarmstadtMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 10/10, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 10/10 at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)Exchange Student, Computer Science, Exchange Student, Computer Science at Hiroshima University
English, Kannada, Hindi, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (78)
inverse-kinematics10
robotics9
inverse9
ardrone9
urdf9
android-application8
python8
deep-learning8
gpu8
machine-learning8
parrot8
kinematics7
ros7
modularity7
interaction7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
souljaboy764/intprim
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
Interaction Primitives library
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes in 1 year 5 months
interactionprimitives
ykarmesh/rl_nav
Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:43 commits in 1 year 1 month
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