# Nikhil Singhal

> Software Engineer at Nuro

Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nikhilsinghal

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer, Simulation @ Nuro
Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Intern on the Simulation Team @ Nuro
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States

### Undergraduate Researcher in the Distributed Robotics Laboratory @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Boston Area
Designed cooperative collision avoidance and path planning algorithms for a fleet of non-communicative autonomous vehicles.
Modified buffered Voronoi cell planning algorithms to reduce deadlock for car-like vehicles while guaranteeing no collisions.

Created coordination algorithm and simulation for multiple drone trackers identifying animals with obstructions and uncertainty.

### Software Engineering Intern on the Simulation Team @ Nuro
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Engineering Intern @ Asana
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Collaborated on a team building an intuitive new web view of Asana’s task lists to improve new user experience.
Created a complex actions menu from minimal specifications and fixed major usability bugs in the new view (e.g. inconsistent multi-selection).

### Undergraduate Researcher in the Computer Graphics Group @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
Created ML models to magnify otherwise imperceptible color changes in videos, revealing information in medical applications and more.
Updated previous models and generated synthetic data to train convolutional neural networks.
Trained models that produced higher magnifications with fewer motion-related distortions than Eulerian magnification.

### Intern on the Cloud AI Healthcare team @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Investigated machine learning approaches to using time series healthcare data to improve critical patient diagnoses.
Designed and trained recurrent neural networks to predict patient blood pressure and acute hypotensive episodes.
Presented data processing and modeling approaches to team to inform future work with time series data.

### Consultant @ Cambridge Mobile Telematics
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
Designed and built log analysis tool to streamline identification of new bugs and reduce response time to critical issues.
Developed grammar and Python interface to describe known features of bugs, search for them, and iteratively update criteria.
Built a graphical user interface to help visualize identified bugs and state machine representations of programs.

### Intern @ Tencent America
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built an apparatus to control wheelchair through eye movement so people with severe ALS or MS could move without assistance.
Wrote eye detection, control, and error handling code, optimizing for safety.

### Intern @ VillageTech Solutions
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Created a web application to compile a bilingual dictionary and allow easy editing, eliminating hours of menial work.

### Intern @ VillageTech Solutions
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Improved usability of textbook viewer in free computer systems shipped to underfunded Nepali public schools.

### Intern @ bebop.co
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built regression test result analyzer to automatically triage bugs and mark duplicates, minimizing a weekly chore for engineers.
Built a web application to graph test results so engineers could quickly visualize trends.


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Artificial Intelligence (Robotics)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021

### High School Diploma
Menlo School
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikhil-singhal-99552b156

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Last updated: 2026-03-23