Kalyan Alwala
Research Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKalyan Alwala is a Research Engineer at Meta with 11 years of experience specializing in robotics and computer vision, blending deep academic training from IIT Madras and Carnegie Mellon with production-focused research. At FAIR he applies path planning and video understanding expertise, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like FacebookResearch’s PyRobot and PyTorchVideo where he improved robotic control stacks and video decoding/data-loading pipelines. His background in search-based planning and biorobotics informs pragmatic system design that bridges low-level robot motion control and ML-driven perception. Comfortable across back-end systems, simulation, and model-linked tooling, he has a track record of turning research prototypes into robust, reusable components.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Degree (B'Tech + M'Tech), Dual Degree (B'Tech + M'Tech) at IIT MadrasMaster’s Degree, Robotics, Master’s Degree, Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (16)
video-processing10
computer-vision10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
robotics10
moveit10
python10
ros10
operating-system10
documentation9
pathfinding9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
architecture5
architectures5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
facebookresearch/pytorchvideo
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
A deep learning library for video understanding research.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:1 release, 55 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Kalyan primarily contributed to the PyTorchVideo library by implementing documentation updates and enhancing its functionalities. Their work included updating documentation to reflect the PyTorch theme and improving the efficiency of data loading processes by adding caching to the frame video module. The user also added a Decord video decoder to expand the available video decoding backends. Furthermore, the user added a detection inference demo and tutorials for the project.
deep-learningvideo-understanding
facebookresearch/pyrobot
May 2019 - Oct 2020
PyRobot: An Open Source Robotics Research Platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 547 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Kalyan primarily worked on modifying and implementing core code functionalities related to robotic control, specifically within the `LoCoBot` platform. The commits show changes related to license updates, incorporating third-party libraries and components into the robot's functionality (likely for control and path planning), and adding utility functions for object handling within the moveit planning scene. The work appears centered on enhancing the robot's operational capabilities.
robotics
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