CTO TenderFix | AI ML SaaS | Serial Entrepreneur

Mohit Kalra

About Me

I am a Technology enthusiast and Entrepreneur on a mission to conserve environment by innovation.

My Area of Interest is AI, Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Architecture, IoT, Embedded Systems with a vision of sustainable development. I am a passionate backpacker who loves to wander in nature, new cultures, food and languages.

Entrepreneurship

Co-Founder, CTO and Managing Director

We develop B2B AI-powered SaaS disrupting the sales process by automating tenders to bids within seconds!
Our mission is to revolutionize tender based sales with state-of-the-art AI and NLP technologies.

Director and CFO

Managing R&D, IT, Finance, Operations (Industrial Machinery OEM firm)
• Bootstrapped the company to grow pan-India with 60+ headcount
• Streamlined the sales & operations workflow for 5x better KPI
• Active in capacity of CFO for financial strategy, cashflow, regulatory
• Grew the company from 0 to $5M annual revenue profitably (2017)

BE8 Cohort Member (CEO/CTO)

Entrepreneur In Residence

Managing R&D, IT, Finance, Operations (Industrial Machinery OEM firm)
• Bootstrapped the company to grow pan-India with 60+ headcount
• Streamlined the sales & operations workflow for 5x better KPI
• Active in capacity of CFO for financial strategy, cashflow, regulatory
• Grew the company from 0 to $5M annual revenue profitably (2017)

Co-Founder and CEO

Developing EdgeAI-Cytology Cervical Cancer Screening PoC device
Led a team of 5 remotely for product, business, customer development and building lab partnership for $130B cancer screening market
Won Multiple awards and research grants for tech/idea/market validation

Experience R&D

2020 - Present

Master Thesis - TerraLoupe GmbH

Boundary Delineation to improve geometric distortions in Geo-Data Segmentation

2018 - 2020

Research Assistant - Fraunhofer IPA (ML/AI, Robotics)

Care-O-Bot4: Developing Real-Time YOLOv3 deep CNN based People Detection and Tracking Computer Vision Algorithm.
• Implemented Sensor Fusion (RGBD camera) for Robust detection
• Created NVIDIA-Docker based ROS packages for rapid deployment
• Data-set pre-processing, Optimization, labeling and preparation

2018 - 2019

Research Assistant - University of Stuttgart

GPU Lab: Developed OpenCL based GPU accelerated Canny Filter with 200x speedup and interactive GUI for edge detection
• Seminar: FPGA based Neural Network Accelerator, IPVS, 2019
• Survey: Reinforcement Learning based UAV Simulators, 2019
• Thesis: Deep Learning based Indoor Localization (MIMO), 2018

PUBLICATION

2020

Traveling Drinksman – A Mobile Service Robot for People in Care-Homes (IEEE)

2019

FPGA based Neural Network Accelerator (IPVS)

2018

Education

2017-2021

University of Stuttgart

MSc. Computer Science (Major: Deep Learning and Embedded Systems) Awarded Grade 1.3 for Master Thesis in Autonomous Vehicles AI
2012

YMCA University of Science & Technology

B.Tech. Electronics Instrumentation and Control Engineering

Certifications

2016

University of California, Irvine, USA

IoT and Embedded Systems (Coursera)

Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI) 89%
Machine Learning 92%
Deep Learning 91%
Python (Programming Language) 94%
IoT and Embedded Systems 88%
Robot Operating System (ROS) 89%
Software as a Service (SaaS) 94%

Projects

RosPy:CUDA

Dockerfile for automating ROS-kinetic with CUDA, Py3, CvBridge

OpenCL:GPU

Canny/Sobel Filter, Matrix Multiplication, MandelBrot Gen

Head Detector

Real Time RGBD camera based head detector ROS package

UAV Landing

Vision based autonomous estimation and landing algorithm

Indoor Localization

Integrating generator with model for 10x train speedup

P2P

Implemented CSMA (RS485 bus) for inter-node async communication

AWARDS

2021-Der "Pfiffikus" Gründerideenpreis, University of Freiburg, Germany

2020 - Best Scalable Startup, SPARK, Freiburg, Germany

2018 - Social Star impact, Schneider Electric, USA

2018 - Best CleanTech startup, EIT-KIC, Scotland

2018 - Winner of Bosch BCW Hackathon, Berlin

2017 - Winner of Hackathon Stuttgart, Germany

2015 - AnalogMaker India Award, Texas Instruments, USA

HACKATHON ACHIEVEMENTS

Hackathon Winner at Bosch Connected World Conference EMUT 2018

Lead a team of 5 to develop IoT based aquatic pollution probe

Hackathon Winner at Hackathon Stuttgart, 2017 Soil Rover

Developed IoT based Soil Quality Monitoring Robot

Winner of India Analog Maker by Texas Instruments, 2015

Performed Theoretical analysis, Simulation and Prototyping for complex Analog Circuit to precisely calculate circuit response and gain.

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