# Praveen Venkatesh

> Building @ Mach9 | Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University | 3x Gold Medallist, IIT Gandhinagar

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/praveenvenkatesh

I develop research that ships at scale.

At Mach9, I own ML for Digital Surveyor: sub-centimeter 3D scene understanding deployed across 20,000+ miles of city infrastructure. I architect the models, the infrastructure, and the team workflows around them.

Before this: CMU Robotics, where I worked on building an LLM-powered robot deployed in a real facility. Before that: IIT Gandhinagar, Director's Gold Medal, Rank 1.

If it doesn't ship, it doesn't count. See more at praveenvnktsh.com

## Work Experience
### Perception Software Engineer @ Mach9
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Over the last year, my team and I developed sub-centimeter 3D scene understanding fusing multi-view imagery and LiDAR, deployed across 20+ enterprise customers, mapping 20,000+ miles of city infrastructure.

This includes leading research and experimentation in state-of-the-art architectures, developing novel paradigms to solve high impact problems at the low-data regime, and building infrastructure to support training, development, and production for models.

### Admissions Committee @ Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Evaluated M.S. applications for the Robotic Systems Development program.

### Visiting Researcher (MITACS Globalink Fellow) @ Western University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | London, Ontario, Canada
Developed two-stage perception framework for reconstructing deformable 3D plant structures from single-view images. Coupled UNet segmentation with coordinate-descent optimization.


## Education
### Masters in Robotic Systems Development
Carnegie Mellon University

### BTech - Bachelor of Technology in Major - Electrical Engineering | Minor - Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/praveenvnktsh
- Website: https://praveenvnktsh.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-04-05