Varun Haritsa

Varun Haritsa's work experience includes working as a Perception Software Engineer at Thoro.ai starting from March 2023. Before that, they were a Perception Engineer - II at IAM Robotics from May 2022 to March 2023, where they worked on various projects related to local path planning for robots in a warehouse, localization and mapping stack improvement, and multi-resolution LIDAR scan matching. From July 2020 to April 2022, they worked as a Visiting Research Scientist - Computer Vision at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, focusing on multi-camera self calibration and simultaneous projective reconstruction. Varun also has experience as a Research Intern and Graduate Research Assistant at North Carolina State University, where they worked on projects including multi-camera visual-inertial SLAM implementation for autonomous vehicles, visual robot localization, feature mapping, obstacle detection, and avoidance for autonomous ground vehicles. In 2016, they worked as a Hardware Engineering Intern at SenZopt Technologies Pvt. Ltd., designing PCBs for metering and dimming sections of smart plugs and LED drivers.

Varun Haritsa completed their Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a university where they studied from 2014 to 2018. Afterward, they pursued a Master of Science (MS) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University from 2018 to 2020.