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Perception engineer — 3D perception, CUDA, and edge deployment.
Profile
Perception engineer with 3+ years building production-grade 3D perception for autonomous driving and off-road robotics. Specialised in deploying deep learning models on embedded GPUs with CUDA and TensorRT, with a research background in radar and LiDAR point cloud segmentation. Published in IEEE T-RO, ICRA, and ICRA Workshops.
Experience
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Apr 2025 – PresentRobotics Engineer
- ▸Developing the real-time perception stack for autonomous wheel loaders in unstructured off-road environments, taking research prototypes to on-vehicle production systems.
- ▸Co-authored sensVLA, a spatially-grounded Vision-Language-Action model for autonomous heavy machinery — accepted at the ICRA 2026 Workshop on VLA Pipelines for Real Robots.
- ▸Own end-to-end deployment of deep learning perception models on embedded GPUs, including quantisation, TensorRT engine builds, and CUDA-based pre/postprocessing.
Motor AI GmbH
Mar 2023 – Mar 2025Perception Engineer – HPC
- ▸LiDAR 3D Object Detection. Shipped a production 3D detection model to the test vehicle by engineering a TensorRT inference engine and custom CUDA pre/postprocessing kernels — reaching 24 FPS on the embedded GPU and meeting real-time constraints.
- ▸LiDAR Lane Segmentation. Built the end-to-end inference pipeline with a custom CUDA NMS kernel for lane outputs, achieving ~20 FPS on the edge device and unblocking on-road deployment.
- ▸Data & Annotation Tooling. Designed the ODD data-collection pipeline and built an in-house 3D LiDAR annotation tool, then led the in-house labelling team — scaling training-data throughput for downstream perception models.
CARIAD SE (Volkswagen Group)
May 2022 – Nov 2022Master's Thesis Student
- ▸Radar Moving-Object Segmentation. Designed a novel temporal transformer network for sparse radar point clouds; trained on the in-house Porsche Radar Dataset and RadarScenes.
- ▸Achieved state-of-the-art results with a 12% improvement over the prior baseline; work published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) under Prof. Dr. Cyrill Stachniss (IPB Lab, University of Bonn).
Stachniss Lab, University of Bonn
Aug 2020 – Mar 2021Graduate Student Assistant (HiWi)
- ▸Researched LiDAR intensity calibration methods to improve ego-vehicle localisation accuracy, and implemented a non-learning-based approach for dynamic-object removal from LiDAR scans.
Robidia GmbH
Jan 2022 – Mar 2022Computer Vision Intern
- ▸Developed an identity tracking and motion prediction stack for a robotic camera slider and deployed the model on an NVIDIA edge device at 60 FPS.
SCREWERK GmbH
Jun 2021 – Dec 2021Deep Learning Intern
- ▸Built a CNN-based screw-density classifier for industrial camera images and integrated it into the operator UI via a WebSocket service — enabling full automation of the machine.
Education
University of Bonn
Oct 2019 – Nov 2022M.Sc. in Mobile Sensing and Robotics — Grade 1.4
Focus: SLAM, 3D Object Detection, Point Cloud Analysis, Bundle Adjustment, CUDA, Deep Learning for Vision.
Guru Nanak Dev University
Jul 2013 – Apr 2017B.Tech. in Electronics and Communications Engineering — Grade 1.7
Skills
Languages
ML / CV
Deployment
Domains
Publications
sensVLA: Spatially-Grounded Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Wheel Loader
G. K. Erabati, B. Johannsen, A. Stewart, V. S. Sandhu
ICRA 2026 Workshop: From Data to Decisions — VLA Pipelines for Real Robots
Radar Instance Transformer: Reliable Moving Instance Segmentation in Sparse Radar Point Clouds
M. Zeller, V. S. Sandhu, B. Mersch, J. Behley, M. Heidingsfeld, C. Stachniss
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2024
Radar Velocity Transformer: Single-scan Moving Object Segmentation in Noisy Radar Point Clouds
M. Zeller, V. S. Sandhu, B. Mersch, J. Behley, M. Heidingsfeld, C. Stachniss
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023
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