Nihar Prakash Asare

Hello! I'm Nihar, a passionate Machine Learning Engineer and Robotics enthusiast with experience in AI, computer vision, and robotics. Currently pursuing my Master’s in Engineering Sciences with a focus on Robotics at the University at Buffalo.

• Research Assistant, Optical & Ultrasonic Imaging Lab, UB – Jun 2023 – Present
  Working under Dr. Jun Xia on research related to Medical Imaging in 3D reconstruction using Computer vision, Deep Learning and Sensor Fusions.
• Machine Learning Engineer, Tactic Pvt Ltd – Jun 2023 – Aug 2023
  Developed an trading-based ML model, 3-point intersection feature, and ML deployement workflow.
• Software Engineer, Capgemini – Aug 2021 – Jun 2023
  Worked on Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Agile methodlogies, MLOPs infrastructure.

• Master of Science in Engineering Sciences, Robotics
  University at Buffalo (SUNY), Aug 2023 – Dec 2024
• Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering
  University of Pune, India, Aug 2017 – May 2021

• 3D Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving
  Created a SFM based 3D reconstruction pipeline with Semantic Segmentation, Object Detection on KITTI dataset.
• Spotify Recommendation System
  Developed a recommendation system using Collaborative filtering and deployed on Streamlit.
• Jarvops
  Developed a custom MLOPs Platfrom from scratch.
• GYMENI - A Workout Companion APP
  Built an CV-based LLM Streamlit app that helps user to select workout and get real-time suggestions based on the posture.
• Depth Estimation
  Compared Monocular Depth estimation using ResNet34, MiDaS models for real-time video.
• Efficent path planning and energy optimization for serial link warehouse robots using RL
  Developed a 2D planar Robotic Arm Environment and implmented Advantage-Actor Critic(A2C) and Deep Q-Network(DQN) for energy optimization comparison.
• Follow-the-GAP Algorithm
  Implmeneted Gap-follow algorithm on F1-Tenth Simulator optimizing Steering Angle and avoiding obstacle to complete the lap within given time.

Programming Languages: Python, C++, Dart, Kotlin, Swift

Technologies: TensorFlow, PyTorch, OpenCV, Flask, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins

Tools: Git, GCP, JIRA, MATLAB, ROS

Email: niharasare@gmail.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nihar-prakash-asare

GitHub: github.com/NiharP31