Yash Manian
Senior Robotics Engineer, Computer Vision at National Robotics Engineering Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYash Manian is a Senior Robotics Engineer specializing in computer vision with eight years of experience building perception and visual-inertial systems for real-world robotics at organizations including IAM Robotics and the National Robotics Engineering Center. He combines a strong academic foundation—a Mechatronics/Robotics master’s from University of Maryland—with hands-on expertise in active perception, control, and sensor design demonstrated by work on whisker-based contact sensors and lightweight airflow sensors. As a former perception group lead, he has shipped production-facing perception pipelines and led cross-functional teams from research prototyping to deployed autonomy. His background in competitive robotics and vehicle data-acquisition projects underscores a practical, systems-level approach to problem solving and cost-conscious design. Colleagues know him for turning bio-inspired sensing ideas into robust, field-ready solutions and for mentoring junior engineers—hence the playful GitHub bio “Robot Kindergarten Teacher.”
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkBachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.38, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.38 at University of Mumbai
English, Tamil, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (17)
intel10
hardware10
payment-methods10
sdk10
in-app-purchase10
computer-vision10
sensor10
robotics9
camera-api9
realsense9
simultaneous9
localization9
slam9
configurations8
ros-driver5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yashmanian/Monocular-Visual-Odometry
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 8 months
yashmanian/openGl-test
Aug 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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