# Sai Shruthi Balaji

> Robotics @ Autodesk | Carnegie Mellon University

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

An enthusiastic software engineer working with the Robotics Research team at Autodesk. I completed my Masters in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. I'm skilled in Software Engineering & Architecture, Machine Learning, Deep learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Python, C++, Shell Scripting and OS concepts. I'm passionate about contributing to social well-being through cutting-edge technology. I strongly believe that Robotics is going to revolutionize the world and I would like to be in the frontline of the revolution.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer (ML + Robotics) @ Autodesk
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building robotics software and perception for autonomous assembly and other manufacturing applications.

### Computer Vision Engineer @ Path Robotics
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area
- Improved the pose estimation models that enable seamless bin picking, and explored SOTA zero-shot pose-estimation methods to enable the picking of an unseen part.

- Built Bayesian Neural Networks to allow probabilistic predictions that can give a sense of the confidence of the neural network output, thus enabling the robot to pick the part with the most confident pose prediction, and improving bin picking success rate.

- Explored different grasping algorithms.

### Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Teaching Assistant for Visual Learning and Recognition (16-824) in Fall 2022.

### Computer Vision Intern @ Path Robotics
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Columbus, Ohio, United States
Built an end-to-end learning based unified calibration pipeline using a differentiable robot model and minimized calibration errors in the robot cell.

### Research Engineer - Perception @ Minus Zero
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Founding engineer at Minus Zero, helped build the camera-based perception stack to perform object detection, tracking and vehicle velocity detection.

### System Software Engineer @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Bangalore

### Internship @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

### Intern @ Prompt InfoTech Coimbatore
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Robotic Systems Development
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering
PSG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND APPLIED RESEARCH


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sai-shruthi-balaji

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Last updated: 2026-03-29