# Abhinandan Srinivasan

> Robotics at Kawasaki | Columbia University

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/abhinandan

Reach out to me at abhinandan96is@gmail.com.

## Work Experience
### Senior Robotics Software Engineer @ Kawasaki Robotics
Jan 2025 – Present | San Jose, California
Technical Project Scoping & Firmware Strategy | Launched Automated Wafer Centering for on-the-fly planning to correct offset, Robot Dynamic Alignment to detect skew when picking payload, Weight based fine control to enable meeting sub-100-micron movement and placement accuracy.

### Robotics Software Engineer II @ Kawasaki Robotics
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Jose, California
Robot Manipulation, Controls & Motion Planning for Semiconductor Wafer Handling

### Robotics Software Engineer @ Gorbel Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Rochester, New York
Algorithms for Rehabilitation and Intelligent lifting devices

### Mechatronics Intern @ ASML
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Wilton, Connecticut
Controls, Sensing with EUV Reticle Positioning Team.

### Graduate Research Assistant - Roar Lab @ Columbia University in the City of New York
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York
RObotics And Rehabilitation (ROAR) Laboratory - Prof. Sunil Agrawal's research group
• Integrating OpenAI-Gym and Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms for path planning

### Research Intern @ University of Leeds
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Surgical Technologies Research Group - Prof. Peter Culmer's research group.
• Development of magnetometer based hyper-elastic sensor. (Publication below)

### Research Intern @ Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Ropar, Punjab, India
Mechatronics with Robotics Applications Lab - Prof. Ekta Singla's Research Group
• Control algorithm for a custom modular manipulator on LabView RT

### Space Frame Engineer @ Pegasus Racing - PSG TECH
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Formula Student Germany 2016 (Combustion) 
• Led Chassis design, analysis, and manufacturing.


## Education
### Master's degree - MS in Robotics and Controls
Columbia University

### Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
PSG College of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abhinandan14

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Last updated: 2026-04-01