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Research Scholar · IIT Kanpur

Teja Surya H

GeoAI Researcher

Bridging Mathematics, Machine Learning, and Spatial Intelligence to advance autonomous navigation and sensor fusion.

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Teja Surya H
About

About Me

Teja Surya H
GeoAI LiDAR SLAM Sensor Fusion 3x Kaggle Expert

I am a Research Scholar in Geoinformatics at IIT Kanpur, working under the guidance of Prof. Salil Goel. My academic journey has taken me from Computer Science at MIT (Anna University) through Mathematics at IIT Madras, and now into the frontier of spatial intelligence research.

My work sits at the convergence of Sensor Fusion, LiDAR, SLAM, and Robotics for autonomous navigation. I approach these challenges with the mathematical rigor of a pure mathematician, the algorithmic intuition of a software engineer, and the data-driven mindset of a machine learning practitioner.

Beyond the lab, I am a 3x Kaggle Expert, a musician (keyboardist), currently learning German, and a polyglot who speaks six languages — Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, English, and Malayalam.

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Spatial Intelligence
LiDAR · SLAM · 3D Mapping
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Autonomous Systems
Sensor Fusion · Robotics
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Mathematical Rigor
M.Sc Mathematics · IIT Madras
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Kaggle Expertise
3x Expert · Notebooks, Datasets
Journey

Education & Experience

Education

2022 — Present
M.Tech in Geoinformatics (Research Scholar)
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur
  • Focus: LiDAR, Sensor Fusion, GeoAI, SLAM, Autonomous Navigation
  • Under Prof. Salil Goel — Teaching Assistant (Survey Eng. & GIS)
    • LiDARSensor FusionGeoAISLAM
    2019 — 2021
    M.Sc Mathematics
    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
  • Applied Statistics, Probability Theory, Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis
    • StatisticsLinear AlgebraProbability
    2014 — 2018
    B.E. Computer Science & Engineering
    Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University
  • AI, NLP, Databases, Cloud Computing, Software Engineering
    • AINLPDatabaseCloud

    Experience

    Nov '23 — May '24
    Senior Product Analyst
    Amazon Development Centre India
  • Product strategy and analytics for large-scale marketplace operations
  • Data-driven insights to optimize seller and customer experiences
    • Mar '22 — May '22
    Data Scientist Intern
    Climate Connect Digital
  • Time-series forecasting on 13 years of wind/solar energy data
  • Random Forest, LightGBM, XGBoost — reduced MAPE to 0.76
    • Apr '20 — Jul '20
    Software Engineer (Android Developer)
    Taruni Restaurant
  • Android food delivery app — Java, PHP, MySQL, UPI integration
    • May '17 — Sep '17
    Software Engineer
    CTDT · Anna University
  • Laser-LDR run-time tracking system — 50% cost reduction vs. RFID
  • Won Rs. 2,00,000 grant from Tamil Nadu Govt.
    • Projects

    Research & Projects

    A selection of projects spanning GeoAI, Computer Vision, Data Science, and NLP.

    🧠 Computer Vision
    Brain MRI Detector & Segmentation
    Built a medical image segmentation system from scratch using UNet architecture. Detects and segments brain tumors from MRI scans with pixel-level precision.
    PyTorchUNetOpenCVMedical Imaging
    🌾 AgriAI / Vision
    Paddy Disease Detection — ResNet
    Fine-tuned ResNet on Keras for multi-class paddy disease classification. Demonstrates transfer learning applied to precision agriculture and remote sensing.
    TensorFlowKerasResNetTransfer Learning
    💨 Data Science
    Wind Power Forecasting (Germany)
    Time-series forecasting and EDA on German wind power generation data. Benchmarked SARIMA, LightGBM, and LSTM for renewable energy load management.
    PythonLightGBMLSTMTime Series
    🚕 Urban Mobility
    Yellow Taxi Demand Forecasting (NYC)
    Spatiotemporal demand forecasting using geospatial clustering and temporal models. Combines GeoAI with ML for urban mobility optimization.
    PythonGeoSpatialXGBoostFolium
    💬 NLP / Full-Stack
    Sentence Paraphraser — LLM App
    Full-stack application using GPT-3 API for sentence paraphrasing. Serverless backend on AWS Lambda with a clean frontend interface.
    GPT-3AWS LambdaServerlessNLP
    Skills

    Technical Skills

    Core Research Domains
    SLAM & Autonomous Navigation85%
    Machine Learning & Deep Learning90%
    Mathematical Modeling95%
    NLP & LLMs82%
    AI / ML Frameworks
    PyTorchTensorFlowKeras Scikit-learnLightGBMXGBoost TransformersHuggingFace PandasNumPyPlotlySeaborn
    Geoinformatic Tools
    QGISArcGISCloudCompare MATLABGeoPandasLeaflet.js
    Programming & Tools
    PythonC++Java SQLGitAWS Apache SparkHTML/CSS/JS
    Recognition

    Awards & Achievements

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    3x Kaggle Expert
    Expert-ranked across Datasets, Notebooks, and Discussions on the world's premier data science platform.
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    AIR 81 — JAM Mathematics 2019
    All India Rank 81 — 99.5th percentile nationwide, earning direct admission to IIT Madras.
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    INSPIRE Internship Scholar
    Selected for the INSPIRE Internship Camp by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.
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    Rs. 2,00,000 Research Grant
    Won a competitive grant from Tamil Nadu Uniform Services Recruitment Board for a Laser-LDR tracking project at Anna University.
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    Polyglot — 6 Languages
    Fluent in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, English, and Malayalam. Currently learning German.
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    50% Cost Reduction — CTDT
    Laser-LDR tracking system reduced prototype cost by 50% vs. prevailing RFID-based solutions.
    Contact

    Get In Touch

    Feel free to reach out for collaborations, research discussions, or any opportunities.

    Email
    tejasurya@alumni.iitm.ac.in
    LinkedIn
    /in/tejasurya
    GitHub
    github.com/tejasurya
    Location
    IIT Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
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