# Yug Ajmera

> SWE III @ Waymo | UPenn MSE Robotics | BITS Pilani

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yug

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Multimodal models for perception.
(Google's self-driving car project)

### Senior Research Engineer @ NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Jose, California, United States
Vision-language perception and language-driven behavior planning for open-world autonomy.

### Research Engineer @ NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Jose, California, United States
Level-4 autonomous driving stack for a custom platform: HD mapping, GPS localization, 3D perception (detection + tracking), map-conditioned prediction, and behavior/motion planning.

• Top-tier award - USDOT Intersection Safety Challenge 2024
• Spot Recognition Award

### Graduate Researcher @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Dynamic 3D scene prediction using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) - GRASP Lab

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
CIS 581 - Computer Vision and Computational Photography (Spring 2023)
CIS 580 - Machine Perception (Fall 2022)

### Bachelor Thesis Student @ Technische Universität Darmstadt
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Imitation learning (ProMPs) for human-like handshaking behaviors on the Elenoide android robot.

### Research Intern @ University of Lincoln
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Point cloud segmentation and grasp planning for manipulation tasks with a Franka Panda robot arm.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Three-wheel omni-drive telepresence robot: motion planning and monocular person-following.

### Robotics Intern @ Technoyantra
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Web interface for autonomous navigation and control of ROS-based mobile robots in warehouses.

### Product Development Intern @ Vinnan Labs
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Autonomous UV sterilization robot: ROS navigation stack, SLAM, Octomap 3D mapping.

• Winner - TiEGrad Business Idea Tournament 2019
• Finalist - BIRAC-SoCH Innovation Challenge 2018


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Robotics
University of Pennsylvania

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Mechanical Engineering, Data Science (Minor)
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yug-ajmera
- Portfolio: https://yainnoware.blogspot.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/YugAjmera

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Last updated: 2026-04-11