Debasis Mandal

Debasis Mandal has extensive work experience in various technical roles. Debasis is currently working at Motional as a Principal Engineer and Tech Lead, overseeing a cross-functional project to Shift Left for end-to-end autonomous vehicle testing using HIL. In this role, they collaborate with multiple engineering organizations to automate offline evaluations, increase developer productivity, and improve safety.

Before joining Motional, Debasis worked at Modulate.ai as a Software Engineer for a brief period. Prior to that, they were a Senior Engineer, Tech Lead, and Team Lead at Motional, where they led the design and development of perception pipelines for real-time and simulation applications. Debasis also worked closely with ML, hardware, and software infra teams to deploy vision ML models and optimize runtime and latency requirements.

Debasis also has experience at Synopsys Inc, where they served as a Sr R&D Engineer and worked on the ZeBu compiler backend for chip design verification. Debasis also had a technical internship at Synopsys Inc.

Prior to that, Debasis was a PHD Researcher at Iowa State University, specializing in Theoretical Computer Sciences. Debasis received various awards for their excellence in research and teaching assistance.

Debasis also worked at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur as a Project Engineer, contributing to the development of a Cross-Language Information Retrieval system. Debasis collaborated with multiple institutions and research centers for this project.

Debasis started their career as a Software Engineer at Infosys and Usha Martin Technologies.

Overall, Debasis Mandal has a diverse background in software development, research, and technical leadership, with a strong focus on autonomous vehicle technology.

Debasis Mandal holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Iowa State University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata.