Hey, I am

Pranav Deo

About Me

As a Robotics Research Engineer at Honda Robotics Japan, I specialize in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dextrous Manipulation. My focus is on R&D for general robotics, with a keen interest in the practical applications of Robot Learning and Computer Vision. I'm really excited about deploying these innovations on real-world robots, unmanned vehicles, and in autonomous driving. Welcome to my journey at the forefront of cutting-edge technology.

Experience

Oct '21 - Present

Robotics Research Engineer

Honda R&D, Japan

Developing Deep Reinforcement Learning based solutions for fine control of in-house state-of-the-art robots

March '20 - May '21

Overall Coordinator

Team SeDriCa, Innovation Cell, IIT Bombay

Managed a multi-project team of 60+ students focused on building self-driving car and autonomous drones

June '20

Computer Vision Intern

Daikin, Japan

Researched and Deployed Real-time object detection algorithms suitable for edge devices

Summer '19, Spring '20

Teaching Assistant

IIT Bombay

Created and evaluated assignments for students; conducted extra study sessions

Education

2017 - 2021

Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of technology Bombay

Department Rank 5 out of 102 batchmates with GPA 9.26/10.00

Key Projects

Oct '21 - Present

Dextrous in-hand manipulation

Frontier Robotics, Honda R&D, Japan

Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to train policy robust to changes in environment

coin picking, can opening, press release

Jan '18 - May '21

SeDriCa (Self-Driving car)

UMIC, IIT Bombay

Part of a team of 30 students working on developing India's 1st self-driving car

showcase video

Contact

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