Aaditya Voruganti

About

Robotics engineer from UIUC’s Intelligent Motion Lab who led the perception stack for a humanoid robotic nurse, fusing camera/LiDAR/IMU on NVIDIA Jetson Orin for real-time localization and scene understanding across six robots. Deep expertise in ROS 2 and edge ML optimization (TensorRT, CUDA, zero-copy), delivering major latency/throughput gains (10 FPS to 22+ FPS) and building fault-tolerant pipelines with gRPC offloading and real-time reliability practices.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Led development of a multi-sensor perception stack for a humanoid robotic nurse (camera/LiDAR/IMU) across six robots
• Solved multi-sensor time synchronization via custom ROS 2 time alignment with jitter buffering to stabilize SLAM
• End-to-end edge inference optimization on Jetson Orin (TensorRT FP16, layer fusion, plugins, fused CUDA preprocessing)
• Improved throughput from ~10 FPS to 22+ FPS and reduced frame latency ~40% with minimal accuracy loss
• Designed low-latency ROS 2 architecture using shared memory, bounded queues, and backpressure to prevent frame drops
• Implemented gRPC edge offloading with async streaming, FP16 tensor compression, and failover; reduced p95 latency ~250 ms to ~90 ms
• Reduced per-frame latency ~25% and CPU load ~40% using ROS 2 composable nodes with intra-process zero-copy
• Production-grade real-time reliability practices: instrumentation, health checks, deterministic scheduling, HIL testing, graceful degradation

Reference Highlights

• Incredibly skilled in complex robotics and real-time systems
• Deep robotics expertise (taught the reference a lot about robotics)
• Built and deployed an AI-driven product end-to-end (backend ownership)
• Strong ownership in ambiguous requirements
• Able to lead and assign tasks to other team members
• Builds efficient and scalable systems; considers tradeoffs
• Delivered 100% uptime while handling 100+ users
• Strong cross-disciplinary breadth (robotics, ML/AI, hardware/embedded)
• Leadership experience (lead at Illinois Space Society)
• Contributed to rockets that broke new altitude records
• Highly passionate/engaged with his work