# Dhanvi Sreenivasan > Multi Robot Planning @ Symbotic | CMU Robotics | Unilever R&D | IIT-Bombay Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dhanvi My key areas of interest are in search-based planning for large-scale multi-agent systems through the use of classic heuristic search with deep learning. My primary experience is in C++ and Python on ROS 1 and 2. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Symbotic Jan 2026 – Present | Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States ### Advanced Software Engineer @ Symbotic Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States Responsible for deploying multi-agent routing algorithms on multiple customer sites for Symbotic's novel warehouse inventory management solution ### Graduate Student Researcher @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Developing methods to use Graph Neural Networks to create scalable Multi-Agent Path Finding algorithms for warehouse applications ### Graduate Researcher @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Developed a conflict-based search planner in C++ to handle hybrid coverage and collaboration tasks without collisions Extended the Theta* planner with focal search and parallelization to give 3x speed-up vs A* on grid sizes up to 200 x 200 Acting project manager - handling sprint planning, stakeholder engagement and budgeting using JIRA and Confluence ### Robotics Software Engineer @ Salin 247 Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Ames, Iowa, United States Full stack engineer at early stage startup building fully autonomous robots for post-emerge pesticide spraying of corn fields 1. Developed consistent strategies to spray arbitrarily-shaped fields using Boustrophedon path planning based approaches 2. Deployed a CNN model to estimate tracking error from crop row video feed on HSV-thresholded SIFT features of crop rows 3. Orchestrated quick deployment by creating a custom Docker environment (ROS + VNC) for nVIDIA Jetson TX2. ### 5S Manager - Home Care @ Unilever Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Led an 8 -person global team to deliver €200M annually towards improving gross margins by developing data-driven integration tools to track, consolidate and manage key projects for review and reprioritization 1. Funnel Value Optimization - Global tool to analyze end-to-end value chain of over 500 projects annually, using SVM clustering to harmonize similar geographies and increase scope dynamically and provide formulation insights 2. Surfactant Pricing Optimization - Real-time tool to provide surfactant mixes using an NN model to achieve parity product performance while minimizing mix cost, used for procurement negotiations with key suppliers 3. Competitor Intelligence Database - Year-long project to create a new system to store competitor data generated by in-house analysis team, creating a Python app as Proof-of-Concept to identify key ingredient boundaries for consumers by geography ### Management Trainee Program @ Unilever Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 Unilever Future Leaders Program - Intensive program consisting of 8-12 week projects across Product Development, Production, Logistics, Sales, and Marketing giving an in-depth view across the breadth of Unilever’s business 1. HC Design Center - Incorporated and tested new technology into existing laundry formulations, landing as a product in Latin America generating 1M euros of value 2. Pondicherry PC Plant - Redesigned caustic dosing mechanism for even saponification in PSM and developed an empirical model for effect of process temperature on soap finishing process 3. Lifebuoy Cluster Team - Localized and tested formulations for the launch of the Love, Beauty and Planet handwash range in India by dealing with key surfactant and fragrance suppliers ### Summer Intern @ Unilever Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mumbai Data Capture System for learning-based Soap Bar QA 1. Implemented an end-to-end data capture system for on-line sensing and analyzing of soap bar production in pilot plants 2. Developed and hosted a live NN-based model to correlate input ingredient levels and sensor readings to output bar hardness for 50% faster trials of novel formulations with high confidence to replicate in main factories generating $1M annual value ### Teaching Assistant @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mumbai Teaching Assistant for MA 101: Introduction to Calculus for a batch of 40 freshmen ### Summer Research Intern @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Bombay ## Education ### Master's degree in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering Carnegie Mellon University ### Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay ### Delhi Public School, Pune ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dsreeni --- Source: https://flows.cv/dhanvi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dhanvi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31