# Murali Veerapaneni > Autonomy Software Engineer Location: Menlo Park, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/muraliveerapaneni MS in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Dynamic Systems, Control theory and Optimization 1. Background in Classical Control, Optimal Control, State Estimation, Guidance-Navigation, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning. 2. Practical experience in Optimization, State Estimation, Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning. 3. Practical experience in Algorithms and Data Structures. 3. Proficient in C, C++, Python, MATLAB/SIMULINK, ROS, CMake, Git. All Projects are hosted at - https://github.com/muralivnv ## Work Experience ### Autonomy Software Engineer @ Cyngn Jan 2022 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States ### Algorithm Development Engineer, Automated Driving @ ZF Group Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ The University of Texas at Arlington Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Arlington, Texas 1. Taught closed-loop control system analysis 2. Modeling and Simulation of Dynamical Systems 3. Linear discrete systems, state-space methods ### Research Assistant at Aerospace Systems Laboratory (ASL) @ The University of Texas at Arlington Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering MS Thesis -- Real-time Minimum Jerk Optimal Trajectory Synthesis and Tracking for Ground Vehicle Applications 1. Setting up over-the-network communication architecture between wheeled mobile robot and ground station using ROS. 2. Design and implementation of acceleration constrained trajectory generation with nonlinear control law on wheeled mobile robot using MATLAB/SIMULINK, ROS with over-the-network communication architecture. 3. Time-delay characterization between ground-station and the rover and analysis of trajectory tracking performance of the nonlinear controller under time-delays 4. Maintainer of 'asl_gremlin_pkg', ROS package for on-board online trajectory generation and tracking using acceleration constrained trajectory generation and nonlinear control law https://github.com/muralivnv/asl_gremlin_pkg Thesis document can be found here at https://rc.library.uta.edu/uta-ir/handle/10106/27173 ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas at Arlington ### Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering GITAM UNIVERSITY ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/murali-vnv --- Source: https://flows.cv/muraliveerapaneni JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/muraliveerapaneni/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10