# Udaikaran Singh

> Perception @Waymo | Ex-TikTok | CMU SCS

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/udaikaran

SWE Perception @Waymo. Data curation & evaluation for foundation models.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Perception team with focus on model evaluation for onboard models and foundation models.

### Machine Learning Engineer @ TikTok
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Jose, California, United States
TikTok Search Video Retrieval and Ranking (leading video indexing)
- Introduced LLM to search indexing for for measuring video quality to improve content quality.
- Improved search indexing by introducing OCR and adding new prediction head to the model. Improved retrieval by coverage by 20% in experimentation.
- Redesigned offline indexing pipeline primarily by migrating from MapReduce to PySpark, reducing runtime of pipeline from 30 hours to 4 hours and reducing max cpu cores needed from 60k to 15k.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
TA for ML courses under Dr. Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Dr. Eric Nyberg, and Dr. Matt Gormley.

### Machine Learning Engineer Intern @ TikTok
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Worked in the Trust & Safety team.
- Improved the accuracy of pornographic audio detection model by 15%.
- Updated TikTok codebase to support self-suprivsed learning models and self-supervised model training  (e.g. Data2vec).
- Develop initial multimodal model for fusion of video and audio backend models.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Agot.AI
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
SWE internship focusing on computer vision algorithm development.

### Data Science Tutor @ UCSD CSE Department
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | La Jolla, California
I helped tutor an Introduction to Data Structure and Mathematics for Data Science course. I aided students in their homework and contributed to the course material through helping to create homework problem and extra study resources.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Artificial Intelligence
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Data Science
UC San Diego

### Bellarmine College Preparatory


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

---
Source: https://flows.cv/udaikaran
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/udaikaran/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-11