Akhil Nagariya

Affiliation

Texas A&M University

Biography

Akhil Nagariya is a Senior Researcher Engineer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station. He is working on bird's-eye-view construction and learning-based planning algorithms for Autonomous Driving. He completed his Ph.D. at Texas A&M University, where he worked on Reinforcement learning-based trajectory tracking controllers for various types of Off-Road vehicles. Before joining Texas A&M, he worked for UUrmi Systems, where he led the teams working on Navigation and Localization subsystems for self-driving cars. Before joining Uurmi Systems, he worked on the human intent prediction module of the navigation subsystem of indoor robots. Education: IIT-Hyderabad, India Computer Science B.Tech, 2014 IIIT-Hyderabad, India Computer Science M.S., 2016 Texas A&M University, US Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., 2022 Appointments: Postdoctoral Scholar Texas A&M University Jan 2023 — Research Assistant Texas A&M University Aug 2017— Dec 2022 Computer Vision Intern Velodyne May 2018—Jul 2018 Research Engineer Uurmi Systems, India Feb 2016—Jul2017 Project Consultant Imaginate, India Nov 2014— Dec 2014 Research Assistant Texas A&M University Aug 2013—Aug 2016