Nandan Banerjee Resum´ e´ OBJECTIVE b iRobot Corporation To work on state of the art robots, devise new algorithms re- 8 Crosby Drive, Bedford, MA 01730, USA lated to SLAM, vision, and other robotics problems. T +1 (774) 4208142 B nbanerjee [at] irobot [dot] com WORK EXPERIENCE E www.nandanbanerjee.com JUNE 2015 – PRESENT iRobot Corporation EDUCATION Bedford, MA, USA Sr. Robotics Software Engineer 2013 – 2015 Robotics Engineering MASTER OF SCIENCE Development of state of the art algorithms for mapping and Worcester Polytechnic Institute navigation, vision, and manipulation in the R&D division. 2008 – 2012 Computer Science BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY JUNE 2014 – AUGUST 2014 National Institute of Technology, Durgapur Vecna Technologies Cambridge, MA, USA Robotics Research Intern SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS Model based tracking algorithm implementation to track the 2018 Persistent Maps on Roomba hand of a Kinova JACO arm. Implementation of a Calibra- (SLAM, Computer Vision, Occupancy Mapping) tion Helper tool to partially automate generating camera-robot Mapping and navigation research - algorithms for vi- transforms. sion front end, occupancy mapping, SLAM-graph op- timization and sparsification in heavily constrained JULY 2012 – JULY 2013 computational platforms to enable lifelong mapping Samsung Research India for next generation Roombas (i7) and other consumer Bangalore, INDIA robots. Software Engineer 2014 DARPA Robotics Challenge (Robot Dynamics, Robot Control, Perception) Interfaced parts of the Tracfone prepaid engine for a Samsung Programming perception and manipulation capabili- feature phone. Implemented AT commands for AT&T feature ties for the ATLAS robot. Simulating Inverse Kine- phones. Debugged file system, SD card, USB and other system matics for Atlas’ arms, visual servoing, trajectory op- layer issues related to ST Ericsson’s ARM9 processor. timization, object segmentation, walking. I am the team lead for the door task, where the robot has to JUNE 2011 – AUGUST 2011 go, open and walk through a generic door. For more Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre details, visit http://robot.wpi.edu/drc Kolkata, INDIA 2013 Visibility Planning Summer intern (Robot Kinematics, AI, Optimization) Performed a comparative study of parallel computing techniques Plan for visibility of an object by the robot hand using NVIDIA CUDA and OpenMPI on histogram computation camera using Simulated Annealing on the Baxter re- at the LHC Grid computing laboratory. search robot. 2011 Chess Playing Robot (Control Systems, Computer Vision) 4 DOF manipulator capable of playing chess in real SELECTED PUBLICATIONS time. Uses the GNU Chess Engine to determine the 2018 Fast Nonlinear Approximation of Pose Graph computer moves and a webcam to determine the Node Marginalization moves made by the opponent. ICRA 2018 2019 Lifelong Mapping using Adaptive Local Maps EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ECMR 2019 ROBOTICS Won prizes in Robotics & Embedded systems 2019 View management for lifelong visual maps competitions IROS 2019 QUIZZING Represented NIT Durgapur and Samsung at 2021 Preventing and Correcting Mistakes in Lifelong various competitions Mapping ECMR 2021 STEM STEM talk at schools and job shadows SKILLS MORE INFORMATION LANGUAGES C, C++, Python, (past - Java, Object Pascal) WEBSITE For more information regarding the projects above and other ones, please APIS OpenCV, OpenGL, (past - ROS, PCL, MoveIt, visit - Android SDK, CUDA) http://www.nandanbanerjee.com/projects OS Linux, Windows ORGANIZATIONS IEEE (Senior Member), IEEE-RAS A SOFTWARE Matlab, Visual Studio, LTEX, GDB, Git, SVN AWARDS iRobot Chairman’s Team Award 2018, EMBEDDED (past - AVR & ARM MCUs, Circuit design & IRNet Young Investigator Award 2012 simulation) LANGUAGES English, Bengali, Hindi.