Pranav Desai

Principal Engineer @ Qualcomm

About

Decision making and planning for autonomous driving

Country

United States

City

San Diego

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Monte Carlo Simulation, Data-driven Decision Making, Reinforcement Learning, Motion Planning, Decision-Making, RTOS, C, C++, Embedded Software, Perl, Embedded Systems, Unix, Debugging, Linux, Wireless, Device Drivers, Operating Systems, TCP/IP, Digital Signal Processors, Algorithms

Experience

Principal Engineer

Qualcomm

2025-11 - Present · 11 mos

San Diego Metropolitan Area

Senior Staff Engineer

Qualcomm

2020-10 - Present · 6 yrs

Behavior planning lead for autonomous driving

Staff Engineer

Qualcomm

2019-4 - Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

Behavior planning for autonomous driving

Staff Engineer at Qualcomm Research Center

Qualcomm

2013-1 - 2018-1 · 5 yrs 1 mo

San Diego

• Senior member of data services modem team primarily responsible for embedded networking for Qualcomm’s MDM chipsets. • Implemented and integrated PCIe based Ethernet Controller device drivers for MDM/MSM chipsets in Linux and Android operating systems. • Responsible for data path optimizations for power and performance in Ethernet and WLAN device drivers. • Implemented software modules to inteface Ethernet and WLAN device drivers with custom network stack offloading hardware. • Responsible for implementing control path configuration manager for various WiFi, Ethernet and USB features. • Worked on E2E data path configuration for WiFi, Ethernet and USB tethered interface with WAN (LTE) backhaul. • Profiling and optimizing E2E data paths between WLAN/Ethernet/USB to LTE (WAN) to propose performance and power optimizations for MDM chipsets. • Improved power utilizations for Ethernet controller by implementing Linux PM and advance power save features.

Software Engineer II

Fujitsu Network Communications

2010-11 - 2013-1 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

- Implemented and integrated LACP Independent state machine (802.1ad) for Fujitsu FW9500 packet ONP product in a real-time distributed software environment. - Was responsible for design and implementation for distributed LACP state machine architecture. - Responsible for interworking and integration with G8031, xSTP, Service OAM protocols. - Responsible for overall Link aggregation recovery after soft/hard restart, application bring up. - Improved traffic switching time by 5 times (500%) for Link Aggregation protocol. - Optimized CPU utilization by implementing distributed control logic.

DSP Systems Engineer

Signalogic Inc

2010-6 - 2010-10 · 5 mos

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

- Responsible for implementing proprietary header compression algorithm and packetization algorithms for RTP in Linux environment. - Duties include support for integration of open source VOIP software like RTPProxy and Kamailio to support VOIP applications.

Student/ Researcher

Autonomous Vehicle Lab

2008-8 - 2009-12 · 1 yr 5 mos

University of Texas at Arlington

- Implemented a novel path planning and guidance algorithm; that models obstacles as Gaussian distributions, in real world on a real-time microcontroller. - Obstacle avoidance and waypoint navigation algorithms implemented on MPC555; data string parsing was done on DSP56Fx processors. Inter-processor communication achieved over the CAN network. - Guidance algorithms developed in Matlab-Simulink Toolchain. String parsing algorithms developed in Forth. Real-time testing, logging and debugging performed over JTAG, RS232 and CAN network.