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Suvarna Kadam

@suvarnakadam

Senior AI consultant and applied researcher specializing in computer vision, robotic perception, and model optimization.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior technical roles driving applied CV/ML research into production—leading teams, building edge/cloud solutions, and delivering scalable, privacy-aware AI products.

I am a Senior AI Consultant and Applied Researcher with a 22-year track record delivering high-impact computer vision and robotic perception solutions. I focus on practical research application, model optimization for edge devices, and enterprise AI productization.

My PhD-level expertise in Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) and meta-learning has produced peer-reviewed work, including a target-driven one-shot UDA paper accepted at ICIAP 2023. I consistently translate research into production-ready systems that improve robustness in novel environments.

As a technical leader, I have scaled teams from 3 to 28 engineers and driven strategic roadmaps for CV divisions, overseeing cloud and on-prem pilots such as low-code smart surveillance MVPs with custom detector training, ALPR, and face recognition.

I deliver measurable engineering results—examples include a 20x inference-speed improvement on NVIDIA Jetson TX2 for real-time edge perception—and I mentor teams to accelerate PoC development while implementing secure, privacy-conscious deployments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Machine Learning Consultant

Current

Witsense AI

Aug 2017 - Present (8 years 1 month)

Founded and led R&D for CV/ML products including auto-annotation, AI-assisted teleprompter, and robotic perception for AGVs while advising AI startups and building team expertise in ROS2 and modern ML tooling.

PyTorch Auto Annotation Tools Startup Consulting

VP Solutions (Computer Vision)

Kecilin Id

Jul 2023 - Nov 2024 (1 year 4 months)

Led scaling of the Computer Vision division from 3 to 28 engineers and delivered cloud and on-prem Smart Surveillance MVPs (Custom Yolo detectors, Face Recognition, ALPR) while architecting an Advanced RAG knowledge assistant for secure enterprise intelligence retrieval.

Computer Vision YOLO Face Recognition RAG

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Mar 2022 - Mar 2023 (1 year)

Conducted research on target-driven one-shot Unsupervised Domain Adaptation improving human pose detection and multi-object tracking in novel environments; modularized sensor infrastructure and co-advised a PhD student.

Domain Adaptation Pose Estimation Multi Object Tracking Sensor Integration Research Python Experimental Design

CV/ML Consultant

Blueberry Technology Inc

May 2021 - Dec 2021 (7 months)

Optimized custom computer vision detectors on NVIDIA Jetson TX2 achieving 20x inference speedup for an autonomous wheelchair and implemented fail-safe perception and privacy-preserving video obfuscation.

Optimization NVIDIA Jetson Privacy Preserving Vision Computer Vision Deployment

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science

2017 - 2022

Ph.D. in Computer Science focusing on generative approaches for visual cognition and few-shot learning, culminating in a dissertation titled 'Learning from a Few Samples: A generative approach for Visual Cognition.'