Chinmay Burgul

Robotics Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and deploying multi-modal SLAM software stacks on real-world robots. I have extensively worked with MSCKF (OpenVins) and OKVIS frameworks and developed further for multi sensor fusion.

Graduate Research Assistant at University of Delaware (2021-01 – Present)

• Designed and deployed multi-sensor fusion SLAM frameworks integrating LiDAR, 3D sonar, vision, IMU, DVL, and joint encoders for legged and underwater robotic platforms
• Implemented real-time C++/ROS autonomy stacks optimized for onboard compute, including state estimation, online mapping (ESDF), and motion planning on resource-constrained hardware

Graduate Research Assistant at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2019-08 – 2020-08)

• Formulated reinforcement learning-based controllers for dynamic within-hand manipulation (WiHM), advancing dexterous robotic grasping research

Machine Learning Intern at Phood LLC (2019-05 – 2019-08)

• Built an end-to-end ML pipeline for object detection model training and deployed scalable inference APIs on AWS

Mechatronics Engineer at Entra Mechatronics Pte Lte (2016-01 – 2017-02)

• Designed, prototyped, and tested a custom spherical-coordinate robotic arm optimized for automated task execution

Doctoral Student in Robotics – University of Delaware (2021)

M.S. in Robotics – Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2018 – 2020)

B.Tech in Mechatronics – SRM Institute of Science and Technology (2012 – 2016)