Nitish Kumar
Nitish Kumar
Nitish Kumar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Embedded Systems group at Delft University of Technology. As part of the ANT Doctoral Network, his research focuses on embedded active inference for autonomous robot manipulation, aiming to design scalable, energy-efficient, and intelligent models for real-time decision-making on edge devices. His work explores the intersection of machine learning, control theory, and embedded systems, with emphasis on model compression, hierarchical inference, and efficient implementation on robotic hardware.
He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, where he worked on radar-based perception, non- linear model predictive controller design, and sensor fusion for autonomous vehicles. Before joining TU Delft, he contributed to several intelligent transportation and autonomous navigation projects, including autonomous navigation, radar-camera fusion and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) systems.
Nitish is passionate about building intelligent embedded systems that bridge the gap between perception, reasoning, and control, enabling robust autonomy in real-world environments.