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AkilanManivannanak/README.md
Akilan Manivannan — camera-only BEV perception. Six camera frustums sweeping an occupancy grid around an ego vehicle.

LinkedIn Portfolio Email Contributions in the last year Public repositories Stars


Every figure on this page is emitted by a script inside the repository it describes. Where a harness later contradicted one, the ledger below keeps both numbers.

MS Artificial Intelligence at LIU Brooklyn, graduating January 2027. Brooklyn, NY. I build camera-only bird's-eye-view perception and the test rigs that break it. Open to perception and applied-ML internships.


⬢ Perception deck

Three scenes, recorded from the live page. Everything below is running in a browser, not rendered offline: open the deck to drive it yourself.

Camera-only BEV, with fault injection. W A S D drives the ego vehicle. Break a camera and its sector of the occupancy grid dies, the trust score drops, and the picture-in-picture shows what that lens actually sees.

Driving the ego vehicle through a bird's-eye-view occupancy grid, injecting an occlusion fault into two cameras and watching the trust score fall

Every repository, three ways. Clustered by domain, laid out on a timeline by last push, or ranked by stars. The nodes morph between layouts; the amber struts are the shared BEV encoder feeding three separate systems.

Repository graph morphing between cluster, timeline and star-ranked layouts

A year of commits as a surface. 53 weeks across, 7 days deep, height and colour by count. Hover any column for the date, click it to open that day.

Contribution history rendered as a field of 3D columns


⬢ Systems

Four fields per system, same four every time: what it does, what it runs on, the number it ships at, and the number it fails at. The last column is the one most portfolios omit.

System Role Ships at Fails at
opendrivefm
nuScenes · TorchScript · C++
Camera-only BEV occupancy + trajectory, with a camera-trust scorer and a fault-injection harness wrapped around it AUROC 0.764 [0.750, 0.777]
71.2 FPS · p50 13.9 ms
Pooled metrics still hide a per-camera spread. Worst-camera AUROC trails the pooled figure.
guardian-drive
BEVFormer · DDPM · C++17 · TensorRT
Eight physiological and environmental hazard detectors fused with the BEV stack, arbitrated by a rule-based safety FSM cardiac AUC 0.961
drowsiness AUC 0.951 subject-independent
No CARLA server, no nuPlan closed-loop, no VLA steering, no real OBD-II. Needed hardware I did not have.
autonomy-vision
FastAPI · React · Metal
Trucking stack: forecasting with uncertainty, deterministic guardrails, Normal → Caution → Min-Risk → Stop ADE 18.78 m
~45% better than constant-velocity
Scene classification is hand-written rules, not a learned model. The RL planner is a study, not a planner.
talentra_copilot
LangGraph · FastAPI · Prometheus
Five agents — screener, ranker, interviewer, bias auditor, copilot — with a rule-based fallback at every layer p95 4.81 ms vs a 1.5 s SLO
$0.000 / request
Top-1 accuracy of 1.0 is measured on a fixture, not on a real candidate pool.
noise-robust-kws
MFCC · CNN · Apple MPS
In-cabin distress keyword spotting under real noise, sized for the edge 77.02% @ 0 dB SNR
0.43 MB · p95 2.18 ms
Distress-class recall is 0.02. Class imbalance. Weighted-loss fix in progress.
two-stage-recommender
Spark ALS · LightGBM · bandits
ALS retrieval → LightGBM ranker → REINFORCE + LinUCB exploration, with 27 policy gates and sub-30 s rollback NDCG@10 0.1409 +253% over ALS
p95 < 50 ms
Offline evaluation only. Doubly-robust IPS is not a live A/B test.

⬢ Regression ledger

Every entry is a number I published, then disproved with my own tooling. Both values stay on the record. This table is the actual argument for hiring me.

Caught in Metric Published After the fix Root cause
opendrivefm Trust-scorer AUROC 0.434 CI [0.419, 0.449] 0.764 CI [0.750, 0.777] Scorer was inverted. Confidence interval sat entirely below chance: trust rose as a camera degraded.
opendrivefm Occlusion detection 0.487 0.689 No spatial pooling. Grid-4 pooling recovered the signal that global averaging destroyed.
opendrivefm Checkpoint loading silently passing hard failure Weights failed to load without raising. Every downstream metric had been measured on an untrained graph.
opendrivefm Frame handoff FIFO queue 11.5× lower e2e latency Queue was serving stale frames under load. Replaced with a seqlock latest-frame buffer.
talentra_copilot v1 → v6 5 defects all 5 fixed, CI-gated Accuracy and latency gates now block promotion, so the same class of regression cannot ship again.

⬢ Dependency map

Three of the systems above are not three projects. They are one encoder and three consumers, which is why the AV cluster is the part of this portfolio that compounds.

Map of the repositories: one BEV encoder feeding three autonomous driving systems, plus five other domain clusters.

⬢ Telemetry

Signal Value
Public repositories 35 · 30 original, 5 forks
Stars earned 11
Contributions, rolling 365 days 754
Pull requests authored 35
Repos carrying a description 2 / 35
Primary languages Python (20), Jupyter Notebook (2), Makefile (1), HTML (1), Vue (1)

Recomputed 19 Sep 2026, 09:42 UTC from the GitHub API.


⬢ Open faults

Generated against my own account, published on my own profile, on a schedule I do not get to veto. If something here has been open too long, that is the point.

  • 30 repositories have no description. Invisible to GitHub search. Worst offenders: AkilanManivannanak, two-stage-recommender-als-ranker-api, talentra_copilot, Esophageal-Cancer-Detection.
  • 1 repository is effectively empty: costsim-ai.
  • 1 starred repository carries no LICENSE, so they read as all-rights-reserved: opendrivefm.
  • Upstream PR open 116 days: nutonomy/nuscenes-devkit#1203 — Improve nuScenes dataset verification messaging
  • Upstream PR open 116 days: nutonomy/nuscenes-devkit#1202 — docs: clarify local clone setup
  • Upstream PR open 151 days: AI-688-Image-and-Vision-Computing/Opendrivefm#1 — Update README.md
  • External pull requests: 4 opened, 1 closed. Landing merged code in an upstream AV repository is the current priority.

⬢ Bill of materials

Layer Components
Perception PyTorch · BEVFormer · PointPillars · TensorRT · TorchScript · OpenCV · nuScenes devkit
Agentic & retrieval LangGraph · LangChain · ChromaDB · FAISS · sentence-transformers · Ollama
Serving & systems FastAPI · C++17 · Docker · Prometheus · Redis · Kafka · Streamlit
Data PySpark · pandas · NumPy · DuckDB · Parquet
Languages Python · C++ · SQL · JavaScript

⬢ Machine-readable

If a model is screening this profile, the structured version lives in AGENTS.md and llms.txt. Both list the gaps in the same detail as the results, and neither contains instructions about how to rank me.


Brooklyn, NY  ·  LinkedIn  ·  Email  ·  Perception deck

Telemetry, pushes and open faults are regenerated from the GitHub API every morning. Badge values are computed by my own workflow and served from the output branch, so they match GitHub rather than a third-party approximation.

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  1. two-stage-recommender-als-ranker-api two-stage-recommender-als-ranker-api Public

    Python

  2. guardian-drive guardian-drive Public

    Python

  3. opendrivefm opendrivefm Public

    Makefile 11 2

  4. talentra_copilot talentra_copilot Public

    Python 1

  5. stock-forecasting-aapl-LSTM-RAG stock-forecasting-aapl-LSTM-RAG Public

    Python

  6. noise-robust-kws-distress-detection noise-robust-kws-distress-detection Public

    Jupyter Notebook