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Shahram Syed
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- About
- High School
- Bachelor's
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Male
Sind, Pakistan
Work ExperienceSenior Robotics Engineer
CrossWing Inc. - Part Time
Jun 20, 2022 - Present · 4 yrs
Ontario, Canada
a) Integrated ROS based Navigation and Perception stack for the Bishop Cleanbot funded by NGEN, Canada
b) Implemented sensor fusion for on-board sensor suites for the Bishop Cleanbot which included rotary encoders, monocular camera, Lidar, GPS and IMU
c) Implemented multi-task learning pipeline for training single Neural Network architecture (with bifurcated network branches) for monocular depth estimation and instance segmentation using raw monocular RGB camera feed
d) Experimented with visual-inertial odometry for localization of bot in closed environment in real-time
Research Engineer (Computer Vision and Machine Learning)
Retrocausal Inc. - Full Time
Nov 1, 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 8 mos
Washington, United States
a) R&D on video analysis for human activity understanding funded by NASA’s Human Research Program
b) Worked with proprietary large scale activity recognition datasets from CAE Healthcare, Ford, PACCAR, Mecnica, Honda, Siemens, etc. for delivering experience on “Retroactivity platform” for increased worker productivity on assembly line
c) Developed a novel dynamic time warping based video alignment approach for self-supervised video representation learning, achieving 20% improvement over supervised baselines, published in CVPR’21 and filed as a patent (USPTO) with Retrocausal Inc.
d) Proposed a joint representation learning and online clustering approach for unsupervised action segmentation, obtaining upto 12% improvements over previous state-of-the-art, filed as a potential patent (USPTO) with Retrocausal Inc.
e) Developed an android application based Advanced Driver Assistance System (A.D.A.S.) for road scene understanding using the on-board Android Phone Sensors (which included Monocular Camera, GPS and Accelerometer), using custom built 3D Computer Vision Techniques
ProjectsMonitoring Fuel Efficiency and fuel theft prevention for remote cellular base stations
Role - Undergrad Research Student
for Industrial
Aug 3, 2015 - Mar 18, 2016
Secure Electronic Voting System with a Hybrid verification system using Fingerprint scanner and Facial Recognition
Role - Undergrad Research Student
for Academic
Aug 8, 2016 - Oct 16, 2017
Unmanned Ground Vehicle for crop monitoring
Role - Project Group Leader
for Academic
Apr 2, 2018 - Jun 29, 2018
Sylvester: Assistive mobile robot for industrial and academic applications
Role - Project Group Leader
for Academic
Nov 22, 2017 - Mar 30, 2018
iForce: Multipurpose Humanoid Robot for pick and place industrial task and assistive application
Role - Project Group Leader
for Academic
Nov 22, 2017 - Sep 10, 2018
Android based ADAS system for Road Scene Understanding and driver risk analysis
Role - Research Engineer
for Industrial
Nov 1, 2018 - Oct 31, 2019
Autonomous Guidance for Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma
Role - Lead Research Engineer
for Industrial
Nov 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2020
Retroactivity: Mistake Proofing System
Role - Lead Research Engineer
for Industrial
Oct 1, 2020 - Present
Research PapersSystem and method for learning human activites from video demonstrations using video augmentation
Feb 16, 2021 - United States Patent and Trademark Office (U.S.P.T.O.)
System and method for determining sub-activities and segmenting the videos with little to no annotations
May 21, 2021 - United States Patent and Trademark Office (U.S.P.T.O.)
System and method for correlating video frames in a computing environment
Jun 21, 2022 - United States Patent and Trademark Office (U.S.P.T.O.)
Remote monitoring system for diesel generators at cellular base stations
Aug 1, 2017 - International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences
A novel hybrid biometric electronic voting system: Integrating finger print and face recognition
Jan 1, 2018 - Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology
RetroActivity: Rapidly Deployable Live Task Guidance Experiences
Nov 18, 2020 - IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) Demonstration
Assistive mobile robot for industrial and academic applications
Jan 14, 2020 - 17th IEEE International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST)
Learning by Aligning Videos in Time
Mar 31, 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
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