# Shashankar Sudarsan

> Software Engineer - Cameras at Zoox

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

Software Engineer (Sensors) at Zoox || Software Engineer (Cameras) at Cruise || ECE at UCSD || EE at IIT Bhubaneswar

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Zoox
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cruise
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer - Cameras @ Cruise
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Perception Engineer - Radars @ Metawave Corporation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater San Diego Area

### Perception Engineer - Radars @ Metawave Corporation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater San Diego Area

### Sensor Engineer @ Olympus Corporation of the Americas
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater San Diego Area
- Implemented code to acquire and analyze data from GPS modules in Python and MATLAB
- Instrumental in devising a novel algorithm based on Kalman Filter for higher accuracy and data rate
- Verified the algorithm’s performance via field testing with the modules

### Researcher/Programmer @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Bhubaneshwar Area, India
Research Proposal - Data Analytics using Evolutionary Computing Techiniques

Project description
• Understood the basics of Neural Networks and Evolutionary Algorithms
• Conducted a Literature Review of various Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms and their Models
• Simulated various Training Models for Forecasting and Classification applications
• Implemented a Radial Basis Function neural network trained using Distributed Genetic Algorithm to predict DJIA Stock Index with a Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) < 1%
• Conducted a literature review of the Extreme Learning Machine (ELM)
• Implemented the concept of ELM (Moore-Penrose Pseudoinverse) to speed up the distributed system for large data sets

### Research Assistant @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Bhubaneshwar Area, India
Research Proposal– Detection and Classification of S1 and S2 heart sounds by PCG and PPG Correlation

Project description
• Designed hardware circuits for acquiring Phonocardiogram (PCG) and Photoplethysmograph (PPG) signals
• Conducted a Literature Review of feature extraction methods for detecting S1 and S2 heart sounds
• Helped detect Peaks(Systolic Peaks) in PPG signal using Gaussian Derivatives
• Identified the correlation between Systolic Peaks of PPG and S2 sound of PCG
• Acquired signal data from various healthy subjects
• Compared the accuracy of the correlation with various feature extraction methods with over 50 acquired subject data


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC San Diego

### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
IIT Bhubaneswar

### High School
DAV Boys Senior Secondary School, Gopalapuram


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shashankarsudarsan

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Last updated: 2026-04-11