Summary
Aniruddha Saha is an AI researcher with nine years of experience who combines academic rigor (Ph.D. work and postdoctoral research at UMBC/UMIACS) with hands-on product engineering in startups and industry. As a founding member of LotusPetal.AI's research team he builds end-to-end RFP automation features—proposal generation, compliance checks, opportunity ID, and conversational knowledge—deployed in containerized instances. Previously he was the sole developer and Lead AI Engineer at a pre-seed startup, shipping an MVP for content-aware 3D product placement in video and securing a pilot customer while driving an NSF SBIR proposal. His background spans computer vision internships at AWS, Matroid, and Bosch, plus early systems engineering on DRAM tools at Samsung, giving him a rare mix of applied research, production ML, and low-level software experience. Based in Pittsburgh, he excels at turning novel ML ideas into deployable systems and often bridges research prototypes to customer-ready products.
10 years of coding experience