Uday Bhaskar

Udayabhaskara N. is an academic, researcher, and systems engineer specializing at the intersection of autonomous systems, distributed computing, and artificial intelligence. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor at PES University, Bengaluru, where he also acts as a coordinator for the Center of Cognitive Computing and Computational Intelligence (C3I).

His research and technical expertise center on autonomous vehicle perception pipelines, high-performance computing, and scalable infrastructure. Proficient in modern C++, Python, and Go, his core work involves ROS 2 integration, LiDAR point cloud processing (PCL), and real-time simulation within the CARLA framework. His research into intelligent edge systems and automotive safety was recognized at the All India Research Scholars Summit (AIRSS) at IIT Madras, where his work on "MEG Aided Hazard Detection for Autonomous Vehicles" earned a Jury Award.

Prior to his appointment at PES University, he served as an Assistant Professor at Dayananda Sagar University (2022–2024). His academic foundation is complemented by four years of industry experience as a freelance full-stack developer and UI/UX designer (2018–2022), delivering distributed microservices and modern web applications using frameworks such as React, Next.js, Flask, and Docker.

A dedicated homelab practitioner, he designs and manages bare-metal Proxmox clusters configured for container orchestration, GPU passthrough, and distributed storage environments utilizing Ceph, MinIO, and Apache Kafka.