# Vatsal Chanana

> Staff Research Engineer at Waymo | Building generative ML models for planning and prediction

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

Currently working as a ML Research Engineer at Waymo (formerly Google self driving project) in Behavior Prediction.

M.S.E. - Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in intelligent systems. 

Spent the summer using deep learning to improve self-driving technology at Uber ATG.

Worked with D.E. Shaw for 2 years as a full stack web developer for the electronic trading platform, internal applications and data analytics systems.

Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology) from University of Delhi (Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology) scoring 80.57% and achieving the fourth department rank in academic performance.

Internship experiences at HackerRank and IBM India Software Labs with project profiles covering software development, database development and creation of problems in data structures, algorithms and artificial intelligence domains. 

Consistently achieved high ranking on competitive programming platforms like ACM ICPC, ACM APC, Topcoder and Codeforces. 
Completed a number of online courses on deep learning, machine learning, web application architectures and algorithm design and analysis. 

Giving back to society through continuous volunteering with Non-Government Organizations working in the field of school education.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer, Predictive Planner, Deep Learning @ Waymo
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
End to end deep learning models for behavior prediction and planning

### Senior Software Engineer, Deep Learning for Planning and Prediction @ Waymo
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States
End-to-end deep learning models for behavior prediction and planning

### Software Engineer 4, Behavior Prediction @ Waymo
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Software Engineer 3, Behavior Prediction @ Waymo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Head TA for CIS 545: Big Data Analytics
TA for CIS 522: Deep Learning for Data Science

### Research Assistant @ GRASP Lab @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Philadelphia Area

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
CIS 545: Big Data Analytics

### Prediction Intern - Uber Advanced Technologies Group @ Uber
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Applied research intern in the prediction team to estimate actor future trajectories using data-driven machine learnt approaches.
Built, trained, and evaluated ML models in offboard pipelines and implemented real-time inference systems for actor prediction onboard the autonomous vehicle

### Software Engineer @ The D. E. Shaw Group
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
Full-stack developer - Front Office

### Problem Curator @ Coderoulette
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Remote
Coderoulette is a pair programming game where we match developers from all around the world and give them coding challenges that they have to solve in real-time using video conference and a collaborative programming environment.
https://medium.com/@arielcamus/coderoulette-a-collaborative-learning-experiment-35e9b8205bfe

### Problem Curator Intern @ HackerRank
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Bangalore
Developed programming challenges on graph algorithms, dynamic programming, segment trees, greedy algorithms, object-oriented programming and language-specific challenges for the community website.

### Software Engineer Intern @ HackerRank
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Software Development Intern @ India Software Lab - IBM
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Bengaluru Area, India
Worked on transit management services for Singapore Mass Rapid Transit.


## Education
### Master of Science in Engineering in Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania

### Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

### High School
Apeejay School,Pitampura


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vatsal-chanana-27a137a1
- Portfolio: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~chanana/
- Portfolio: https://vatsalchanana.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-31