Welcome to my homepage!
Ninad Khargonkar
Applied Scientist @ Amazon Robotics
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Hello there, welcome to my personal webpage. Some personal bit
about me: I enjoyed tinkering with different font families for quite a
while but have come to the conclusion that Jetbrains Mono
is the best default. Please recommend something better if you think
that can be overriden in terms of legibility and distraction free
writing (does anybody “code” nowadays?).
Work-related background: I am an Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics in Seattle focusing on perception and 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. 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.
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 (task successfully executed!). Now, as a typical bang-bang controller I continue to switch this mode daily depending on my last meal and how I felt after climbing a flight of stairs.
As tragic as it reads, none of what I present here is endorsed by my employers. This is a personal webpage and everything written here is just a weird thought experiment. Most of it developed over the years as I spent far too long tinkering with layouts, fonts, color themes and ways to automatically build a website from plain text files. Read at your own risk (no warranty).