Shrutheesh Raman Iyer

Shrutheesh Raman Iyer

Robotics Software Engineer

Aurora Tech

Hello there 👋.

I’m a robotics software engineer at Aurora Innovation, developing self-driving tech.

I’m interested in developing robot systems, to be deployed onto the noisy real world, tackling problems ranging from robot manipulation to navigation.

I graduated from UC San Diego with a master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, specializing in robotics. Here, I conducted my research at the Cognitive Robotics Lab at the Contextual Robotics Institute, UCSD, where I worked on developing an improvisational framework for robot tool use through affordances. Thesis available here.

And when I’m not doing robotics, you’d typically find me watching cricket or football (re: soccer) or passionately defending why the Eagles could not have carried the ring to Mordor.

Download my (semi-up-to-date) CV .

Interests
  • Robotics
  • Autonomy
  • Perception and Planning
Education
  • MS in Computer Science & Engineering, 2023

    University of California, San Diego

  • BE in Computer Science & Engineering, 2020

    RV College of Engineering

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