Suhas Pillai
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolSuhas Pillai is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with roughly a decade of experience applying deep learning and computer vision to real-world problems, currently at Siemens Digital Industries Software after leading DL efforts in semiconductor manufacturing at CDLe. He specializes in sample-efficient neural networks, synthetic-data-driven training, real-time edge inferencing, and image registration, with peer-reviewed publications in SPIE, ICIP and ICPR. At CDLe he accelerated inverse lithography workflows and built one-click, multi-GPU training/inference pipelines that address data scarcity in the semiconductor domain. Earlier roles span NLP search and summarization systems, satellite imagery detection, FPGA-aware model design, and industrial document OCR—demonstrating a practical breadth across domains and deployment targets. He co-created a deep learning curriculum and enjoys hands-on, startup-style engineering, pairing rigorous research with production delivery. Based in San Jose, he balances technical work with mentoring and a competitive streak on the badminton court.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at University of Mumbai
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Github Skills (31)
jekyll10
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recurrent-neural-networks9
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java7
computer-vision6
gaussian6
speech-recognition6
lua6
keras6
tensorflowjs6
thread-pool6
cluster-computing6
python6
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
suhaspillai/Speech-Recognition-Impaired-Speech
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Recognize handwritten text in scanned documents using MultiDimensional Recurrent Neural Networks
Contributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 20 days
recurrent-neural-networks
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