Vishnu Dorbala
Graduate Research Assistant
College Park, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVishnu Dorbala is a robotics and computer vision researcher pursuing a PhD at the University of Maryland with nine years of industry and research experience at the intersection of Embodied AI, deep learning, and visual-language reasoning. He has applied his skills in practical settings—from autonomous navigation for social robots at Nokia Bell Labs and wheelchair navigation research published at IROS to internships and applied scientist roles at Amazon and a short research stint at Sony investigating spatial reasoning in vision-language models. Vishnu blends hands-on systems work (embedded DTLS libraries, perception stacks) with academic rigor, mentoring students and running workshops during his time at IIIT Hyderabad. He is especially focused on bridging language, perception, and control for agents that operate in the real world, and often adopts deep-learning approaches over classical methods to improve robustness in navigation tasks.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Timpany Senior Secondary SchoolBachelor of Technology Electronics and Telecommunication, Bachelor of Technology Electronics and Telecommunication at SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Maryland
Telugu, English, Hindi
Github Skills (31)
animation9
python8
simulator8
robotics7
computer-vision6
graph6
multi-agent6
math6
game-ai6
ros5
virtual5
deep-reinforcement-learning5
api5
deep-learning5
reinforcement-learning5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vdorbala/Intelligent-Wheelchair-Platform
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:68 commits, 17 pushes in 29 days
vdorbala/vdorbala.github.io
Nov 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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