Amit Kachroo

Amit Kachroo

Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon

Ph.D. Students

  1. Dr. Jungseock Joo (PI) and Dr. Khalid Javed’s Research Group at UCLA- Amazon Science Hub. Project: Multimodal Communicative Learning for Robot Navigation. Websites: 1, 2.
  2. Zhe Zhang, Computer Science, UCLA- ARA program. Project: Towards Efficient and Reliable Probabilistic Inference. Research interests: artificial Intelligence and formal methods, probabilistic and formal verification techniques to deal with both uncertainty as well as relational structure, and to enable AI systems to efficiently and reliably learn and infer from noisy, structured, and mixed discrete-continuous data. Website
  3. Rene Bidart, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo- Amazon Intern. Research interest: efficiency in neural network, efficient text classification and churn prediction. Website
  4. Max Zellner: Industrial and Systems Engineering, USC- Amazon Intern. Project: Improving computational speed of staffing models in Java. This included the creation of several examples in code, the implementation of generalized methods, and extensive documentation.
  5. Nan Zhang: Industrial Engineering, UT- Austin - Amazon Intern. Research interest: Modeling and Optimization in Power System Planning

MS Students

  1. University of Washington Capstone project on “IoT Position Application for in-home Robots”

    • Tsung-Hung Hsieh, Electrical Engineering. Research Interests: Machine Learning application in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.
    • Boyuan Yao, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research Interests: Robotics and deep learning.
    • Rui Yan, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research Interests: Software development, specific in front-end design.
    • Sushree Subhasmita Jena, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research Interests: HW/SW design.
    • Chen Yam, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research Interests: Computer Vision and Robotics.
    • Soumith Reddy Busireddy, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research Interests: wireless communication, signal processing, machine learning, and computer vision.
    • Brindhaa VijayaRaghavan, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research Interests: AI/ML, Computer Vision
  2. Sahithi Madiraju, Electrical Engineering, USC- Amazon Intern. Project on “RSSI based Proximity Detection using Bluetooth Low Energy”. Research Interests: Wireless, AI/ML.
  3. Vineet Rao, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan- Amazon Intern. Project on “Exercise Classification with Repetition Counting”. Research Interests: Self-Supervised representational learning, leveraging multi-modal pretraining (particularly language supervised pretraining).

BS Students

  1. Joshua Okamoto, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC-Berkeley.
  2. Mathew Wong, Computer Engineering, University of Toronto.