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Ninad Khargonkar
Applied Scientist @ Amazon Robotics
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I am an Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics in Seattle focusing on perception and high-level planning for robot manipulation. I was a PhD student in the Computer Science department at the University of Texas at Dallas and worked on CV/ML research with applications in robot perception & manipulation. I was associated with the Intelligent Robotics and Vision Lab and advised by Dr. Yu Xiang and Dr. B Prabhakaran. I spent four memorable years at IIT Kanpur from where I graduated with a bachelors degree in Mathematics and Scientific Computing from the department of Mathematics and Statistics. My current research work revolves around data driven robot manipulation. I am particularly interested in the problem of transferring grasps across grippers and development of robust computer vision and geometry based algorithms for grasping.
Apart from work, I am actively trying to wean myself from being obssesed about playing football (requested by my knees!) Efforts towards this goal include cooking, writing and becoming lazy with my physical fitness.