Srinidhi Kalgundi Srinivas

Brief Bio

I’m a Robotics Perception Research Scientist in the Robotics Lab at Autodesk Research, where I am working on perception for manipulation. I build datasets, train models for object localization and grasping, work on general scene understanding.

Before this, I interned at Siemens Technology on robotic bin-picking, worked as a Graduate Student Researcher in UC San Diego’s Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory (AVL) under Prof. Henrik I. Christensen focusing on perception for autonomous vehicles, and was a Senior Software Engineer at Analog Devices developing embedded software for automotive infotainment systems.

I hold a masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California San Diego, where I specialized in Intelligent Systems, Robotics, and Control.

If you are interested in research internships at Autodesk, reach out to me.

Experience

• Apr 2023 – Present

  Autodesk Research

  San Francisco, CA

  Principal Reserarch Scientist, Robotics Perception

  Leading perception research for robotic automation, with emphasis on assembly, bin picking, and manufacturing applications.

• Jun 2022 – Sep 2022

  Siemens Technology

  Berkeley, CA

  Advanced Robotics Intern

  Built an end-to-end perception and grasping pipeline for bin-picking applications in logistics automation.

• Nov 2021 – Mar 2023

  Autonomous Vehicle Lab, UC San Diego

  San Diego, CA

  Graduate Student Researcher

  Developed Deep Neural Networks for modelling the scene around an autonomous car using camera and lidar data.

• Aug 2018 – Aug 2021

  Analog Devices Inc.

  Bangalore, India

  Senior Software Engineer

  Designed and developed MISRA-C compliant software stack for Automotive Audio Bus (A²B) on ADI DSPs and led PoCs for customers.

Publications

GraspFactory: Large-Scale Object-Centric Dataset for Robotic Grasping

Srinidhi Kalgundi Srinvias, Yash Shukla, Adam Arnold, Sachin Chitta

CoRL Workshop on Making Sense of Data in Robotics, 2025

[Paper] [Website] [Video]

Occlusion-Aware 2D and 3D Centerline Detection for Urban Driving via Automatic Label Generation

David Paz, Narayanan E Ranganatha, Srinidhi Kalgundi Srinivas, Yunchao Yao, Henrik I Christensen

arXiv, 2023

[arXiv]

CLiNet: Joint Detection of Road Network Centerlines in 2D and 3D

David Paz, Srinidhi Kalgundi Srinivas, Yunchao Yao, Henrik I Christensen

arXiv, 2023

[arXiv]

Steady State Visually Evoked Potential Based Brain Computer Interface for Game Control

Swati G. Bhat, Sushmitha S, Srinidhi Kalgundi Srinivas, Niranjana B Krupa

Conference 2024

[Paper]