NARENDRA KUMAR VADAPALLI

AI LEADER • VISUAL DESIGN ENTHUSIAST

A software engineer with a balanced left and right brain, specializing in pipeline development, DevOps, graphics tools, and site reliability.

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Credits in Media

Following are the entertainment / media projects I contributed technically

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Graduation work

Projects from my Masters program in Computer Graphics and Game Technology at University of Pennsylvania

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Aug 23, 2026

Part 9: Demystifying Autonomous Vehicles: The 3-Computer Architecture, SAE Autonomy Levels, and the Sensor Fusion Triad

Explore the 3-computer AV architecture, SAE Levels 0 to 5, the Perception-Planning-Control triad, and multimodal Camera-Radar-LiDAR sensor fusion.

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Aug 22, 2026

Part 8: Silicon at the Edge: NVIDIA Jetson Thor Architecture & Isaac ROS Acceleration

Explore NVIDIA Jetson Thor edge computing, Blackwell 800 TFLOPS architecture, NITROS zero-copy IPC, and Isaac ROS sub-50ms humanoid reflexes.

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Aug 21, 2026

Part 7: From Simulation to Streets: NVIDIA DRIVE & Alpamayo Autonomous Vehicle Architecture

Explore NVIDIA DRIVE Thor, Alpamayo AV foundation models, surround-view Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) transformer fusion, and ASIL-D safety-critical redundancy.

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