Gaurav Pandey |
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[June 2016 – Present] Assistant Professor
I am currently a tenure track Professor in the electrical engineering department. I am part of two research groups (i) Control and Automation, (ii) Signal Processing and Communication in the electrical engineering department. I am also involved with the Center for Mechtronics Center for Mechatronics and Computer Vision group of IIT Kanpur. My research interests are in computer vision, mobile robotics, image processing, machine learning and sensor data fusion.
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, INDIA[June 2015 – June 2016] Visiting Faculty
I was a visiting faculty in Electrical engineering department of IIT Kanpur for one year where I closely collaborated with (i) Control and Automation, (ii) Signal Processing and Communication groups.
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, INDIA[September 2013 - June 2015] Research Scientist
Worked on Ford’s autonomous vehicle project. It is a multi-million dollar project and has received significant media coverage over the last few months. I have been actively involved in developing various components of the vehicle, specifically calibration and integration of perception sensors (e.g. lidar, camera, radars etc.) and generation of high quality textured 3D maps of the environment.
Automated Driving, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, USA[August 2008 – August 2013] Graduate Student Research Assistant
Developed techniques for fusion of data obtained from various perception sensors (e.g. lidar, camera etc.) and used them for autonomous navigation of vehicles in GPS-denied environments. My advisors were Dr. Ryan Eustice and Dr. Silvio Savarese.
Perceptual Robotics Lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA[June 2006 - July 2008] Design Engineer
Worked on several computer vision and image processing projects that involved object detection, object tracking, object classification, object segmentation, video streaming and networking at its core.
Kritikal Solutions Private Limited, Noida, India[May 2005 - July 2005] Research Intern
Developed a tool for visualization of 3D model of human jaw for orthodontic treatment. I was working under the guidance of Professor Ong Sim Heng.
Vision and Image Processing Lab, National University of Singapore
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