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Contact Information

Name Arul Selvam Periyasamy
Professional Title Robotic Perception Expert
Email arulselvam@proton.me
Location Eching, Bayern 85386

Professional Summary

Robotic Perception Expert with expertise in developing and deploying AI models for robotics and edge applications. Specialized in object detection, 6D pose estimation, AI inference, and low-latency real-time systems. Contributed perception modules to award-winning research robots and possess a proven track record in the complete AI lifecycle—from cloud-based training to edge deployment. Combines deep technical knowledge in computer vision and machine learning with extensive practical experience in robotics and edge AI.

Experience

  • Jul, 2026 - current

    Metzingen

    Robotic Perception Expert
    Neura Robotics
    Research Scientist in Edge and Confidential Computing
  • Feb, 2026 - Jun, 2026

    Garching bei München

    Research Scientist
    Siemens AG
    Research Scientist in Edge and Confidential Computing
  • Feb, 2024 - Feb, 2026

    Garching bei München

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Siemens AG

Education

  • 2018 - 2023

    Bonn, Germany

    Ph.D.
    University of Bonn
    Robotic Perception
  • 2015 - 2018

    Bonn, Germany

    Master of Science
    University of Bonn
    Computer science

Awards

Projects

  • Learn2Grasp: Learning Human-like Interactive Grasping based on Visual and Haptic Feedback

    Bundesministerium für Forschung und Bildung (BMBF) funded research project

  • Learning Structured Scene Modeling and Physics-Based Prediction for Manipulation

    Amazon Research Grant

  • Amazon Research Grant

    Generalizing Scene Parsing for Cluttered Bin Picking

  • CENTAURO: Robust Mobility and Dexterous Manipulation in Disaster Response by Fullbody Telepresence in a Centaur-like Robot

    European Union (EU) funded project

Skills

Computer Vision: Object Detection & Pose Estimation, Semantic Segmentation, Deep learning, large language models (LLMs) & vision-language-action models (VLAs)
Robotics: Navigation, RGB-D Perception, SLAM
Edge & Cloud: Kubernetes, Docker, Confidential Containers
AI Inference: TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, Nvidia Triton Server, vLLM
Real-time Linux: Preempt_RT Linux

Languages

English : Fluent
German : Working proficiency