Tushar Bankar
About Tushar Bankar
Tushar Bankar serves as the Director of Engineering for India Operations at Ridecell, where he leads a team focused on developing solutions for autonomous vehicle data analysis. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and has extensive experience in software engineering and technology leadership across various companies.
Work at Ridecell
Tushar Bankar serves as the Director of Engineering for India Operations at Ridecell since 2018. In this role, he leads a team of over 80 full-time employees at the India development center. He oversees the Nemo team, which focuses on a search and analytics platform designed for automated driving sensor data, including Lidar, Radar, and Camera. The Nemo platform assists companies developing L2+, L3, and L4 autonomous vehicles by identifying valuable events and traffic scenarios from extensive datasets.
Education and Expertise
Tushar Bankar holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where he studied from 1992 to 1994. He also earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from the College of Engineering Pune, studying from 1988 to 1992. Additionally, he completed a Post Graduate Diploma in International Business from Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies in Pune between 2005 and 2007. His educational background supports his expertise in engineering and technology.
Professional Background
Tushar Bankar has extensive experience in the technology sector. He began his career at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as a Systems Analyst and Project Lead from 1994 to 1998. He then worked at Alstom Group in the USA as a Senior Software Engineer from 1998 to 2000. Following this, he held various roles at PTC, including Software Engineering Manager from 2003 to 2011, and later co-founded Alphastellar, serving as CEO from 2011 to 2015. He also worked as a Senior Principal Technology Architect at Infosys from 2015 to 2017 and as an Enterprise Technical Architect at Exela Technologies in 2017.
Contributions to Autonomous Vehicle Data Solutions
Tushar Bankar has played a significant role in developing solutions that filter and utilize only 5-10% of the collected autonomous vehicle data for further research and development. His work with the Nemo platform is particularly focused on enhancing the efficiency of data analysis for automated driving sensor data, which is crucial for advancing autonomous vehicle technologies.