Suraj Pattar
Staff Engineer at Honda R&D Asia Pacific Co. Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolSuraj Pattar is a Staff Engineer based in Tokyo with nine years of experience specializing in humanoid robotics, computer vision, tactile perception, manipulation, and AI systems. Currently leading R&D on Honda’s humanoid Avatar in the Frontier Robotics Department, he bridges academic rigor—holding a PhD in Computer Vision & Robotics—with hands-on product research from startups to industry. His background spans food robotics at Connected Robotics and applied lab work on intention and engagement recognition for personalized human-robot interaction, reflecting a rare mix of perception research and real-world deployment. Trained in mechatronics and robotics across Europe and Japan, he excels at integrating deep learning with control and sensing for embodied systems. Colleagues value his ability to translate PhD-level ideas into practical robot capabilities that operate reliably outside the lab.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision & Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision & Robotics at Chubu UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechatronics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechatronics at Acharya InstitutesMaster of Science in Robotics Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master of Science in Robotics Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at University of GenoaMasters in Advanced Robotics, Mechatronics, Advanced Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Masters in Advanced Robotics, Mechatronics, Advanced Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Ecole centrale de Nantes
english - c2, french - delf b1, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Italian, japanese - n3
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (92)
camera10
semantic-segmentation10
image-segmentation10
medical-image-segmentation10
robot10
calibration10
openmmlab9
ros9
pytorch9
hardware9
swin-transformer9
data-visualization8
transformer8
autonomous-robots8
python8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
saratrajput/runcom_backups
Mar 2019 - May 2026
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
saratrajput/UnsupervisedLearningInEvolvingEnvironments
Jul 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
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