Summary
Arun Kumar is a machine learning engineer and researcher based in Melbourne, Australia, currently serving as a Research Assistant at Deakin University. With over a decade of combined research and industry experience, he builds and deploys AI systems across robotics, computer vision, and automation domains. Prior roles include Software Engineer - AI & Computer Vision at CubePilot and Data Scientist at IntelliPredikt Technologies, where he shipped diagnostics libraries and RL-driven optimization for automotive systems. His academic work at IISc and RBCCPS focused on one-shot imitation learning, reinforcement learning for bipedal walking, and autonomous UAV navigation. He holds a Master of Applied Artificial Intelligence from Deakin University and a BE in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Pune. He specializes in taking ML from research to production, including serving models on cloud and deploying on edge devices, driven by a hands-on, end-to-end engineering mindset.
10 years of coding experience