Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Teaching Experience
Publications
Certification
Affiliations
Timeline
Generic

Sourav Dutta

Niskayuna,USA

Summary

Creative Research Engineer with in-depth knowledge of current robotic research methodologies and techniques. Results-driven robotic engineer offering over six years' research experience and desire to make positive impact on team and its success. Familiar with state-of-the-art path planning algorithms, control systems, ultrasonic range finders and LiDAR systems. Skilled at working with 3D processing applications.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Research Engineer

GE Research
Niskayuna, USA
12.2022 - Current
  • Research Position offered in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems lab

Ph.D. Research Assistant

SUNY Research Foundation
08.2019 - 11.2022
  • Research assistant to Dr
  • Chinwe Ekenna's lab given to students with a good research experience as a full time PhD student.

Ph.D. Research Intern

GE Global Research Center
Niskayuna, USA
05.2021 - 08.2021
  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems Scientist involved in multi-robot planning

Ph.D. Student Assistant

University at Albany, SUNY
05.2019 - 08.2019
  • Research assistant to Dr
  • Chinwe Ekenna's lab given to students with a good research experience as a summer internship.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University at Albany, SUNY
08.2017 - 05.2018
  • Graduate instructor for sophomore year with funding from the Department of Computer Science, University at Albany, SUNY
  • This fellowship is given to doctoral students in good academic standing who plan to have an academic career so they can gain teaching experience.

Team Leader

Kovair Software Pvt. Ltd.
Kolkata, India
08.2011 - 07.2016
  • Managed a team of junior engineers in a software-integration product company
  • Lead a team of talented engineers to do R&D on the integration platform for piloting a better and more reliable product
  • Achieved accolades from the customers for reducing years-old bugs in the tool and reducing manual maintenance hours in live projects.

Education

Ph.D. - Computer Science

University at Albany, SUNY
11.2022

Bachelors in Technology - Computer Science and Engineering

West Bengal University of Technology, India

Skills

  • Robot Operating System (ROS)
  • Distributed SLAM
  • 3D reconstruction of unknown environments
  • Multi-Robot Planning
  • Motion Planning in Robotics Under Uncertainty
  • Autonomous Aerial Systems
  • Trajectory Planning
  • Adaptive Control Systems
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Gazebo
  • RViz
  • Matlab Simulink
  • CoppeliaSim
  • TensorFlow
  • Industrial Automation
  • Machine Learning
  • Vision System Design
  • Object Identification and Tracking

Accomplishments

  • SUNY Research Foundation, Graduate Research Assistantship, 08/2019, 05/2021, Fellowship awarded to doctoral students with a good research experience who intend to pursue a career in research.
  • University at Albany, SUNY, Graduate Teaching Assistantship, 08/2017, 05/2018
  • University at Albany, SUNY, Graduate Teaching Assistantship, 08/2021, 11/2022, Fellowship awarded to doctoral students in good academic standing who intend to pursue an academic career.

Teaching Experience

  • Introduction to Computer Science
  • Theory of Computation
  • Robotics
  • Discrete Structures
  • Data Structures

Publications

  • Coordinated Multi-Robot Exploration With Next-BestView Planning for Scene Reconstruction, Dutta S, Ekenna C, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), UK, 2023
  • Transformer Based Approach for Sample Generation in Motion Planning, Tran T, Dutta S, Rekabdar B, Ekenna C, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), UK, 2023
  • Adaptive Speed Collision Avoidance for Dynamic Environments, Dutta S, Tran T, Rekabdar B, Ekenna C, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Lyon, France, 2021
  • Uncertainty Measured Markov Decision Process in Dynamic Environments, S. Dutta, C. Ekenna, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, 2020
  • Air-to-ground surveillance using predictive pursuit, S. Dutta, C. Ekenna, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada, 2019

Certification

  • IBM Certified Linux System Administrator
  • Globsyn Certified Microsoft .Net Framework Developer

Affiliations

  • Loves playing and listening to music
  • Loves astrophotography

Timeline

Research Engineer

GE Research
12.2022 - Current

Ph.D. Research Intern

GE Global Research Center
05.2021 - 08.2021

Ph.D. Research Assistant

SUNY Research Foundation
08.2019 - 11.2022

Ph.D. Student Assistant

University at Albany, SUNY
05.2019 - 08.2019

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University at Albany, SUNY
08.2017 - 05.2018

Team Leader

Kovair Software Pvt. Ltd.
08.2011 - 07.2016

Ph.D. - Computer Science

University at Albany, SUNY

Bachelors in Technology - Computer Science and Engineering

West Bengal University of Technology, India
Sourav Dutta