# Dhaivat Dholakiya

> Software Engineer at Coram AI

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

I enjoy building vision and optimization software systems for robots.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Coram AI
Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Verdant Robotics, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led end-to-end camera sensor bring up, system integration and V&V
- Developed in house image processing library on CUDA from scratch eliminating need for third party libraries. 
- Optimized image capture to image consumption pipeline for target GPU/CPU architecture enabling 6x performance jump in processing throughput.
- Built and added numerous bespoke tools for data extraction, data visualization and replay in C++, used by different teams and automated integration tests.
- Implemented ML inference engine deployment pipeline. 
- Feature architect of over-the-air firmware update on STM microcontroller ECU.

### Graduate Researcher @ Interactive Robotics Lab, ASU
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Phoenix, Arizona Area
- Worked on deep learning based interaction primitives to make exoskeletons adaptive
- Toolchain : Python 3.0, Tensorflow 2.0, Tensorflow Probability, Keras, NumPy
- Recieved MORE Research Grant at ASU (Project abstract: https://furi.engineering.asu.edu/furiproject/learning-deep-neural-interaction-policy-for-exoskeleton-control/ )
- Recieved Gerald Ferin Memorial Fellowship at ASU


Advisor : Dr. Heni Ben Amor

### Robotics Software Engineer Intern @ Verdant Robotics, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Technical Associate @ Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems @ IISc
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Designed and Developed quadrupedal walking robot Stoch 2
- Developed high fidelity sim-to-real transfer framework for Stoch 2 
- Stoch 2 demonstration at ICRA 2019 Learning Legged Locomotion Workshop

### Project Associate @ Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems @ IISc
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | IISc, Bangalore
- Designed and Developed 12 DoF Quadrupedal Walking Robot : Stoch 1
- Conducted rigorous walking experiments with Stoch 1
- Published research at Conferences : ICRA 2019 and ICCAR 2019

### Design Team Lead @ Nirma Robocon : University Robotics Society
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | India
Nirma Robocon : University Robotics Society
- Lead the Mechanical design and development Team .
- Managed tasks including robot simulation, robot design, research and strategy designing.
- Won the title of National Winner at National Robocon Competition 2014 and 2015
- Represented as Indian National Team twice at  ABU Robocon.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University

### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Mechanical Engineering
Nirma University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05