Satyam Gaba

Senior ML Research Engineer
San Diego, US.

About

Highly accomplished ML Research Engineer with 4 years of experience in developing and deploying cutting-edge AI solutions across the full lifecycle, from ideation to production. Proven expertise in Computer Vision, Autonomous Driving, LLMs, and Generative AI, with a strong track record of pioneering scalable systems, optimizing complex models, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact technological advancements.

Work

Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer - R&D

Summary

Led the development and deployment of advanced AI/ML solutions, including 3D Digital Twin pipelines, neural rendering models, and object detection systems, driving innovation in autonomous systems and model optimization.

Highlights

Pioneered the industry's first globally scalable 3D Digital Twin pipeline, integrating multi-sensory data and leveraging Blender/Open3D in Python to enable automated material assignment.

Designed and developed an ML pipeline for the "Segment Anything Mesh Model" to zero-shot label 3D meshes, optimizing material assignment and establishing a scalable framework for automated city-scale 3D model labeling.

Led a cross-functional team of 7 engineers in the end-to-end development of an autonomous tricycle cart, integrating Stereo Cameras, SLAM, and ROS for outdoor navigation and obstacle avoidance.

Engineered advanced neural rendering models (NeRF, Gaussian splatting) to enhance reconstruction quality of complex outdoor environments, integrating ICP for precise Point Cloud alignment within the Digital Twin.

Advised over 10 interns and capstone students on cutting-edge research projects focused on LLMs, Generative AI, and Model Optimization, fostering next-generation talent.

Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
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Machine Learning Engineer - R&D

Summary

Developed and optimized advanced ML models for 5G channel compression and Snapdragon devices, spearheading a low-latency ML driver framework and building ETL pipelines for large-scale data analysis.

Highlights

Developed CNN and Transformer-based ML models for 5G Channel Compression, leveraging PyTorch and Ray for distributed training, featured in Qualcomm's and Nokia's MWC Barcelona 2024 demo.

Optimized large ML models for Snapdragon phones, reducing memory computation from FP16 to UINT4 while maintaining accuracy through Post Training Quantization.

Spearheaded the development of a C-based ML driver framework, enabling model inference on Hexagon Tensor Processor with less than 10us latency overhead, showcased at MWC ‘23 and ‘24.

Constructed an ETL data pipeline using Dask on AWS, facilitating Exploratory Data Analysis on terabytes of 5G modem data from real-world deployments.

MESL Lab - Under Prof Rajesh Gupta
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Graduate Student Researcher

Summary

Conducted research on gait analysis and Parkinson's Disease detection using IMUs, developing a novel parameter and a C++ library to enhance diagnostic accuracy.

Highlights

Devised "FluMo," a novel parameter using Modulated Spectrograms to quantify motion fluidity, improving SOTA ML algorithm accuracy by 0.2% on the PAMAP2 dataset.

Developed "LibIMU," a C++ library for synchronous data acquisition from multiple IMU devices at up to 100 Hz.

SkyMul
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Computer Vision Intern

Summary

Developed a computer vision pipeline for 3D rebar detection from drone imagery, significantly improving detection precision and efficiency through advanced ML models and GUI development.

Highlights

Developed a perception pipeline utilizing decision-level fusion, integrating classical CV and Deep Learning models (Faster RCNN, UNet, PSPNet) with PyTorch and OpenCV for rebar extraction from aerial images.

Utilized Point Cloud Registration to fuse Photogrammetry and LIDAR 3D data, achieving 0.92 precision and 0.98 recall with a 3 cm offset for 3D rebar detection.

Programmed a Qt-based GUI labeling framework in Python, reducing labeling time and effort by over 50%.

Education

University of the Cumberlands

Executive MS

Artificial Intelligence

Grade: 4.0/4.0

University of California San Diego

MS

Computer Science and Engineering (Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence)

Grade: 3.9/4.0

Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering (Honors)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Grade: 8.4/10.0

Awards

Second Prize Winner, ThinkOnward Generative AI Challenge

Awarded By

ThinkOnward

Awarded second prize in an international Generative AI competition, recognizing innovative solutions and securing a $25,000 prize.

Publications

Sensing-Enhanced Communication Demo

Published by

Qualcomm

Summary

Demonstrated sensing-enhanced communication capabilities at Mobile World Congress Barcelona.

Generative AI for Enhanced Wildfire Detection: Bridging the Synthetic-Real Domain Gap

Published by

IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)

Summary

Published research on utilizing Generative AI for improved wildfire detection by bridging the synthetic-real domain gap.

Improving Long-Tailed Object Detection with Balanced Group Softmax and Metric Learning

Published by

IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)

Summary

Published research on enhancing long-tailed object detection through balanced group softmax and metric learning.

5G Sensing-Enhanced Communication: A Demo Presentation (2024)

Published by

Qualcomm

Summary

Presented a demo on 5G sensing-enhanced communication at Mobile World Congress Barcelona.

5G Sensing-Enhanced Communication: A Demo Presentation (2023)

Published by

Qualcomm

Summary

Presented a demo on 5G sensing-enhanced communication at Mobile World Congress Barcelona.

8 Patents (Provisional Approved) and 2 Pending Patents

Published by

Qualcomm

Summary

Authored 8 patents (provisional approved) and 2 pending patents with Qualcomm in the fields of Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics and Wireless Communication, demonstrating significant contributions to intellectual property and innovation.

Internet of Things Integration of Battery Management Systems (BMS) for electric vehicles

Published by

TUMCREATE - National University of Singapore

Summary

Completed thesis on the integration of IoT with Battery Management Systems for electric vehicles.

Languages

English

Skills

Languages

Python, C++, C, MATLAB, SQL, Flutter.

Packages and Tools

Pytorch, Tensorflow, Ray, mmDetection, MeshLab, Open3D, OpenCV, Scikit-Learn, PySpark, Dask, Pandas, AWS, Robot Operating System.

Expertise

Computer Vision, Autonomous Driving, LLMs, Generative AI, ML model optimization.

Projects

Object detection on long-tailed distributed data

Summary

Achieved State-of-the-Art (SoTA) results on the LVIS dataset by implementing a decoupled multi-bin classifier approach for object detection on long-tailed distributed data.

Recommender for Amazon products

Summary

Developed a Collaborative Filtering-based recommendation system for Amazon products, leveraging an XGBoost regression model on PySpark.

Fault tolerant cloud-based file storage service

Summary

Engineered a fault-tolerant cloud-based file storage service from scratch, utilizing the RAFT consensus algorithm and XML-RPC calls to manage multiple concurrent client interactions.

Adaptive tuning of Hearing aids using Reinforcement Learning

Summary

Explored adaptive tuning of hearing aids using Reinforcement Learning techniques.