Ruphan Swaminathan Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Singapore

- Developed a vision pipeline to render synthetic datasets of various soft robot dynamics, generate large datasets, train a task-specific neural network and bridge the sim-to-real gap- Collaborated on a ResUNet based novel deep learning architecture: ScoopNet, that uses synthetic RGB images and domain randomization for 6-DOF pose estimation of soft robots- Published the research work in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA- L) and presented it in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021)

Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

- Analysed all the 11 different types of permanent faults in medium voltage underground cable systems- Designed a CNN-LSTM based sliding window algorithm to use the current and voltage signature to detect, classify, and localize the UG cable faults- Conducted several experiments and published the research work in Neural Computing & Applications, Springer

Delhi, India

- Worked on using monocular vision for real-time detection of the lanes and obstacles inside the IIT-D campus- Devised a vision-based lightweight ML pipeline for lane-level trajectory correction of an autonomous vehicle to achieve improved inference time on mobile compute devices (Jetson boards)- Collaborated with a team of 7 and presented autonomous driving capabilities of an electric car at ROBOCON 2019, held at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, 3.90/4.00

Relevant courses: COMSW4995 - Deep Learning for Computer Vision COMSE6998 - Practical Deep Learning for Systems Performance CSORW4231.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 9.04/10

Activities and Societies: Spider R&D - Researcher and Innovator at the R&D club of NIT Trichy | Currents - Workshops Head at Currents.