Sai Ravi Teja Gangavarapu
I'm pursuing a Master's at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Currently, I'm at CMU's AirLab, working on self-supervised offroad autonomous driving. I also work on autonomy for CMU Lunabotics, a lunar excavation robot team, under Prof. Wenshan Wang.
Previously, I interned on the autonomy team at Motional. I'm interested in the intersection of robotics and ML, and in making machine learning run on actual hardware. I also make music sometimes.
With the CMU Lunabotics rover. Read about the autonomy stack
Work
CMU Lunabotics
A lunar excavation rover that drives itself across simulated regolith, digs, hauls, and dumps its load while steering around rocks and craters, with no human in the loop. We were lucky enough to pick up an autonomy award at NASA's competition.
ROS2 · MPPI · YOLOv8 · TensorRT · LiDAR
Self-Supervised Offroad Autonomous Driving
AirLab, CMU Robotics Institute. Self-supervised approaches to offroad autonomous driving, learning from unlabeled driving data instead of hand-annotated supervision.
Self-Supervised Learning · Offroad Autonomy · Perception
Autonomy ML Evals for Self-Driving Taxi 🚕
Motional. Evaluating how well transformer-based trajectory prediction models anticipate what other agents on the road are about to do.
CMR Driverless & F1TENTH
LiDAR-camera cone detection for Carnegie Mellon Racing's driverless Formula SAE car, plus reactive obstacle avoidance and path tracking on a 1/10-scale autonomous racer.
ROS2 · LiDAR · Motion Planning
gitask.org
Offline, in-browser RAG tool: chat with any GitHub repo by swapping the URL. Local LLM inference via WebGPU, AST chunking, binary-quantized embeddings. Zero data leaves the browser. 200+ users.
WebGPU · TypeScript · RAG
30+ more projects (hackathons, research, music & art) in the engineering archive and music & art archive.
Also
I make ambient/experimental electronic music, inspired by Porter Robinson, Kasbo, and Tourist. Listen on SoundCloud
Contact
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