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Rangeesh Venkatesan Team Lead RSVP Approved

Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics
Fine tuned the FunctionGemma-270m-it for better f1-score.
Rangeesh Venkatesan is a Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with over 6 years of experience. Previously he worked at Tesla Autopilot on Robotaxi initiatives. He's a core contributor of Actually Smart Summon. His background includes studies in Engineering, Robotics, Control Systems, and Computer Science from institutions like the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Texas A&M University. He is currently looking for speaking opportunities and is interested in technical architecture, focusing his tinkerer roles on Robotics, ML Infra, and VLM - VLA projects.
Robotics, ML infrastructure, VLM (Vision-Language Models), VLA (Vision-Language-Action), technical architecture, autonomous systems, perception, planning and controls, active learning, computer vision, dataset generation, large-scale ML model training.
Robotics, ML Infra, VLM - VLA

Sanjana Gajendran RSVP Approved

Data Scientist at PDF Solutions
Drafted the submission.
I'm a ML Data Scientist with 5+ years of experience in semiconductor and healthcare.
Building and shipping AI products in Healthcare.
Multi AI Agent games and reinforcement learning.

Harish Panneer Selvam RSVP Approved

Data Science Researcher at National Lab of the Rockies
Ideated and architected the app. Implemented the app and tested it.
Harish Panneer Selvam is a Data Science Researcher at the National Laboratory of the Rockies, based in Santa Clara, California. With five years of experience, his expertise lies in physics-guided machine learning, vehicle energy modeling, and fleet technoeconomic analysis. Harish is proficient in Python and Rust, leading development on open-source tools like T3CO and FleetREDI, and the ALTRIOS simulation suite, which utilize physics-guided ML and CAN-bus data analysis. He holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He is interested in physics-based AI, ML for transportation, robotics, and software engineering.
Physics-based AI, machine learning for transportation, robotics, software engineering, physics-guided machine learning, vehicle energy modeling, fleet technoeconomic analysis, vehicle decarbonization, edge AI, low-latency inference, CAN-bus data analysis, technical architecture, developer marketing, product review
T3CO and FleetREDI are open-source tools for fleet technoeconomic analysis and vehicle decarbonization. ALTRIOS is a high-performance simulation suite built with Rust and Python for mobility systems. These projects utilize physics-guided machine learning, FASTSim, and CAN-bus data analysis for vehicle energy modeling and optimization. Tactical work includes deploying edge-AI for low-latency inference and developing end-to-end data-driven engineering software for energy systems.