Kushal Pillay
Chief Technology Officer at Powerhouse.ai- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Powerhouse AI (YC W22)
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Technology Officer
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Mar 2021 - Present
Al-vision productivity tool for warehouse workers📸 The Al-powered app gives your warehouse superpowers: from automatic counting of goods to scanning multiple labels on go to reading and reconciliation of (paper) documents. Proven to streamline inbound, stocktake, cycle count, and outbound processes by up to 40% with end-to-end coverage. Working with the world's largest companies and 3PLs and backed by investors like Y Combinator and Entrepreneur First. Al-vision productivity tool for warehouse workers📸 The Al-powered app gives your warehouse superpowers: from automatic counting of goods to scanning multiple labels on go to reading and reconciliation of (paper) documents. Proven to streamline inbound, stocktake, cycle count, and outbound processes by up to 40% with end-to-end coverage. Working with the world's largest companies and 3PLs and backed by investors like Y Combinator and Entrepreneur First.
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Entrepreneur First
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United Kingdom
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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400 - 500 Employee
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Founder at Residence
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Jan 2021 - Present
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Gaussian Robotics
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Singapore
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Automation Machinery Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Research And Development
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Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
• Managed, mentored and lead a team to develop products and IoT devices for the FM Industry.• Design and develop system architectures for A.I. centric smart integrated management solutions for the Facility management industry.• Defined and managed the execution of the department business strategy including target definitions, growth areas and business plans.• Create, maintain and manage departmental budget.• Helped the company apply as well as pitch for different funding /Grant calls, also won a grant funding by NEA in 2019 (a grant call to develop security come cleaning robot). I solely designed, developed, and successfully completed the project before the official deadline.link: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/hub/sff-x-switch-2020/open-innovation-is-the-key-to-overcoming-covid-19-challenges• Standardized processes and monitoring individual/team growth with respect to the project completion and task allocated to improve teams productivity by 15%• Effectively interact with other departments & organizations (e.g.Operations, Sales, Purchasing, Marketing Customers and Suppliers)• Set up processes for strategic product development, from developing a POC to MVP based on design thinking. Show less
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Research Development Software Engineer
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Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
• Security & Cleaning robot: Designed and developed a standalone security module for cleaning robots, based on PyTorch and modified Yolo architecture to improve FPS and reduce power consumption; with a 86% mAP over 42 classes integrated with ROS. It mainly involves object classification, categorization, and human pose estimation to classify humans as suspicious/ lying down.• SMART clean: A deep learning model based on image segmentation, FRCNN and IR image segmentation to detect undesired substances that the robot cannot clean to improve the efficiency of cleaning by 6%.• Asset Inspection: Object detection and recognition with some preprocessing based on feature extraction, tracking and MobileNet SSD V2 for asset inspection for a ROS (robotics framework) to achieve 73% mAP @50%IoU.• Fire detection system: Fire detection from an RGB camera using FireNet as well as feature extraction on a model to recognize the optical flow of fire.• Evaluated and improvised DNN models on error analysis & cost. Developing an AI platform to integrate humans work orders and robots to improve the productivity of cleaning.• Developed a module to integrate and monitor the robots via AWS/GCP cloud. Show less
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Robotics Engineer Intern
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May 2018 - Dec 2018
• Worked on the development of a new cleaning autonomous robot based on ROS framework. • Developed an algorithm to detect coffee stains. Built in Python using open CV and GL.Security surveillance features for real time object detection based on the Tensor Flow data set.• Was a part of the operational R&D, also helped in maintenance and deployment.
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Tetra Pak
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Switzerland
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Packaging & Containers
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700 & Above Employee
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Automation Engineer
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Aug 2015 - Jun 2017
• Lead a team for development, testing, commissioning and troubleshooting of production control systems. • Design and developed software automation control solutions based on PLC programming (Rockwell and Siemens) and HMI development for various food processing industries for various countries. • Tested, commissioned and performed troubleshooting of production machine control systems. • Performed project planning during the development phase of the project and successfully executed it by commissioning. • Ensured the accuracy and reliability of instrumentation, GUI/SCADA, control and safety systems. • Authored engineering documentation for timely maintenance and testing of system. Show less
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Education
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Y Combinator
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National University of Singapore
Master's degree, Electrical Engineering Specialization in Automation and Control -
Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Instrumentation and control