# Lakshman Kumar

> Principal Robotics Software Engineer at Berkshire Grey Inc.

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lakshman

I am a Robotics Engineer, currently working at Berkshire Grey Inc, that has some of the best and brightest roboticists in the world. I work at the intersection of Robotics, Computer Vision and Machine Learning.

My undergraduate education in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, India provided me with the required foundation for a future in Robotics. Several projects which I did during my bachelor's , like Smart-phone controlled Quad-Copter, Agricultural Robot, have helped me attain sound practical knowledge, with which I have acquired laurels such as ESA's Student Engineer Award.

I completed my Master's in Robotics at University of Maryland, College Park, and I specialized in Vision based Control of Autonomous Vehicles. This program covered all the four fundamental blocks of Robotics which were taught by Professors working at the forefront of advances in robotics. Apart from Robotics, I have also worked on Virtual Reality Applications. 

During the summer of 2016, I interned at Walt Disney Imagineering R & D , where I got the chance to develop the perception framework for a state of the art, autonomous , legged robot. This was a game changing experience for me as I learnt a lot that cannot be gained in the Academia.

I also worked as a research assistant in the Autonomy Robotics Cognition Lab at UMD under Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos, where I tested Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms on Crazyflie 2 to emulate Vision based homing behavior of Birds/Bees. I was also a part of UMD's Autonomous - Micro Aerial Vehicles team which participated in the competition conducted by American Helicopter Society in 2016.

It has been a really fascinating journey so far and I hope of making a successful career for myself in Robotics.

## Work Experience
### Principal Robotics Software Engineer (Perception / Manipulation) @ Berkshire Grey
Jan 2022 – Present | United States

### Senior Robotics Software Engineer (Perception/Autonomy) @ Berkshire Grey
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater Boston Area
At Berkshire Grey, we believe it’s time to radically change the essential way we do
business. Our game-changing solutions combine AI and Robotics to automate omnichannel
fulfillment for enterprises serving today’s connected consumers. By
transforming pick, pack and sort operations, our technology is a fundamental engine of
change that moves you forward. Berkshire Grey customers include Global 100 retailers
and logistics service providers.

### Robotics Engineer @ Berkshire Grey
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston

### Graduate Assistant @ Robotics Realization Laboratory, University of Maryland College Park
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | College Park, MD
• Managed robots such as Baxter, Turtle Bot(2 & 3), Kuka Robotic Arms, Crazyflie and provided technical support to users

• Created interactive demos, using ROS and C++, for various events that were held at University of Maryland

* Worked under the supervision of Prof. Sarah Bergbreiter

### Research Assistant @ Autonomy Robotics Cognition Lab, University of Maryland
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | College Park, Maryland
•	Collected 60 GB of data of Crazy Flie Nano UAV being manually controlled to imitate the homing behavior of bees , in OptiTrack mocap environment.
•	Created the hardware and simulation test bed for the drone to perform deep-learning tests using NVIDIA Jetson TX1
•	Implemented Q Learning, Deep Q Network and Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient algorithms for position control of Crazyflie and proved that they can perform better than classical controllers, like PID, without modeling the dynamics
*Calibrated the cameras and rectified the images
•	Derived Odometry of the drone using Optical Flow Technique
•	Utilized libraries such as ROS, OpenCV, Keras, Tensorflow & Theano and Programmed using C++ & Python
* Worked under the supervision of Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos

### Advanced Robotics Perception Development Intern @ Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development Inc
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Glendale, California
- Involved in development, integration, and validation of 3D robot perception for state of the art autonomous walking legged robots
- Co-developed modules for performing Visual SLAM, Obstacle Avoidance, Object Tracking, Face/Hand Tracking, Sensor Fusion and Pose Estimation.
- Integrated diverse advanced perception sensors
- Used libraries such as ROS, PCL, DLIB, OpenCV, OpenMP and programming languages such as C++ & Python  
- Assisted with the development of registration and classification database for Face Recognition.

### Java Developer / Co-founder @ Dream Works App Factory
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | India
•	Oversaw the end to end development process of android applications and websites
•	Co-developed android applications namely Pocket Counselor ( 10000 downloads), Pocket Vault, Pocket Tic Tac Toe 
•	Proposed innovative ideas based on which applications were developed
•	Independently wrote the description and privacy policy of the products
•	Provided Customer Support

### Technical Intern @ Technophilia Systems
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
•	Interfaced peripherals such as Accelerometers, Touch Screens, IR Sensors, Servos, RF & DTMF modules with Atmega-8 chip
•	Made several robots which were programmed using Embedded C on AVR Studio, based on protocols such as SPI , I2C, UART


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Robotics
University of Maryland

### Post Graduate Diploma in Electrical CAD in AutoCAD 2D, AutoCAD 3D, AutoCAD Electrical
CADD Center

### Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College

### High School in Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English, French
Mahatma Montessori Matriculation Higher Secondary School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lakshmankumar1993
- Portfolio: https://lkumar93.github.io
- GitHub: https://github.com/lkumar93
- Portfolio: http://www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~lkumar93/

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Last updated: 2026-03-31