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Mayur Mankar

I am a Software Engineer (SDE-I) at Spindle Quantum, where I build backend and optimization systems for a vehicle routing platform used in production logistics and fleet optimization. My work spans Operations Research, dynamic optimization, QUBO-based quantum optimization, and the infrastructure that ships it: Python services, CI/CD and Kubernetes on GCP.

I graduated in April 2025 with an Integrated BS-MS in Data Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, where I worked with Dr. Vaibhav Kumar at the GeoAI4Cities Lab on 3D point clouds. Before that, I did research on 3D computer vision, adversarial robustness and machine learning through internships at IIT Delhi, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence, IIT (BHU) Varanasi and IIT Roorkee.

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Jun '25 Joined Spindle Quantum as a Software Engineer (SDE-I), working on vehicle routing and fleet optimization!
Apr '25 Graduated with an Integrated BS-MS in Data Science and Engineering from IISER Bhopal!
Apr '24 Got selected for Uplink: ACM IKDD Research Internship 2024 under supervision of Dr. Srikanta Bedathur, IIT Delhi!
Feb '24 Got selected for travel grant to attend workshop on Reinforcement Learning at IISc, Bengaluru.
Feb '24 Got selected for short presentation at Frontiers Symposium in Data Science 2024, IISER TVM.
Jan '24 Selected for travel grant to participate in ICTS program "Theoretical approaches in cancer progression & treatment".
Jan '24 Started working on my first startup PawScan.AI!
Jan '24 Got selected for the exploreCSR 2023-2024: Google Research Sponsored Mentorship Program!
Jan '24 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for course DSE313 : Artificial Intelligence at IISER Bhopal!
Jan '24 Started working on my BS Thesis at GeoAI4Cities Lab under the supervision of Dr. Vaibhav Kumar!
Dec '23 Presented my work at IndoML 2023, IIT Bombay.
Dec '23 IEEE Travel Grant Winner for attending Winter School on Biometrics 2024, Shenzhen!
Dec '23 Volunteered at International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) 2023, Milan.
Oct '23 Presented my work at NAMSCON 2023.
Apr '23 Got selected for IASc-INSA-NASI Summer Research Fellowship 2023!

Optimization & OR OR-Tools, QUBO / Quantum Optimization, Qiskit, Constraint Modeling Programming Python, R, C++, MATLAB Backend & APIs FastAPI, REST APIs Databases MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL Cloud, DevOps & MLOps GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, SonarQube, Git, Linux ML & Data Science PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV

Software Engineer (SDE-I) | Spindle Quantum
  • Develop and maintain backend and optimization systems for a Vehicle Routing platform, contributing to production logistics and fleet optimization workflows.
  • Designed routing and data-processing pipelines in Python using OSRM and MongoDB, with automated Excel↔JSON transformations for operational planning and reporting.
  • Built and operate CI/CD pipelines on self-hosted GitLab and Jenkins with SonarQube integration, automating builds, tests and deployments that were previously manual.
  • Containerized backend services with Docker and Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform, standardizing environments across development and production.
Co-founder | PawScan.AI
  • Co-founded a startup building end-to-end AI surveillance systems that fuse gait and face recognition for robust human identification.
  • Pre-incubated at IICE-IISER Bhopal and PIEDS-BITS Pilani; secured a development-and-deployment grant of Rs. 1,50,000 from iHub Anubhuti, IIIT Delhi Foundation.

ACM IKDD Uplink Research Internship 2024 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Worked under the supervision of Dr. Srikanta Bedathur on adversarial robustness in temporal graphs, developing attack and defense strategies for dynamic networks.

CHANAKYA PG Fellowship | I-DAPT Hub Foundation, IIT (BHU) Varanasi

Built an end-to-end camera-LiDAR multi-modal data collection and pre-processing pipeline for downstream 3D object detection.

exploreCSR 2023-2024: Google Research Sponsored Mentorship Program | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Worked under the supervision of Dr. Neetesh Kumar on AI-driven models to detect anomalous road-traffic patterns, improving road-safety analytics.

Science Academies Summer Research Fellowship Program | Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence

Worked under the supervision of Dr. Sandeep Sen on improving the attention-aware multi-prototype transductive inference (attMPTI) method for few-shot 3D point-cloud semantic segmentation of indoor scenes. This work got accepted at IndoML 2023, IIT Bombay.

2023 Energy Mentors - IIT Ropar Internship Program | Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

Collaborating within a five-member team, I contributed to developing a digital twin for a Hybrid Energy System.

Winter Intern | Indian Institute of Technology Patna

Worked under the supervision of Dr. Sriparna Saha on Explaining Stereotypes behind Cyberbullying Memes via Knowledge Enhanced Text Generation.


Enhancing Diagnostic Accuracy by Remediation of Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning-Based Neuroimaging Systems

Accepted at NAMSCON 2023

Digital health methodologies like A.I. with deep neural networks have become well-utilized for neuroimaging analysis tasks like segmenting brain lesions, atrophy or tumor detection, diagnosis and grading. However, recent diffident experiences demonstrate that carefully-engineered adversarial attacks can jeopardize medical informatics procedures and compromise imaging-based deep learning systems with small malicious imperceptible perturbations. This raises security concerns about the deployment of these computational neuroimaging systems in clinical settings. Our study is the first of its kind to investigate the robustness of deep learning-based MRI diagnostic systems using adversarial intrusions and formulates an iterative adversarial training approach to remedy these attacks.

Ready TransInformation-based Assessment of Neurocognitive Salience level Electrophysiologically

Accepted at NAMSCON 2023

Evaluation of the neurocognitive salience level is an important critical need, whether in clinical monitoring or stressful occupational settings. Since high-resolution low-cost telemetric dermal-patch leads are available for physiological investigations, a suitable characteristic biopotential signal could be from an electrocoticographic/ electroencephalographic framework. It is well-known that in neurophysiological perspective, a cardinal parameter for stimulus-response characterization is the transinformation interaction flow (in hartleys/bits) which characterizes the information flow congruence between two states of the neurophysiological system. We have earlier transinformation measure to accurately predict the stimulus-response function of the neural system in animal preparations, and formulate a general neurocomputational basis of neural information transmission[1]. Here we investigate whether the transinformation parameter can also be utilized to delineate the neurocognitive salience level in different clinical situations.


Dynamic Vehicle Routing & Fleet Optimization System
  • Designed and developed an event-driven DVRP engine with stateful route management, supporting pickup-delivery, time windows, heterogeneous fleets, multi-depot operations, vehicle/driver constraints, and dynamic events including new orders, cancellations, traffic delays and vehicle breakdowns.
  • Architected a hierarchical optimization framework with a Trigger Decision Engine for event-driven optimization decisions, cost-aware insertion, vehicle- and region-level re-optimization, and QUBO-based global optimization; integrated state versioning, OSRM routing, FastAPI, and MongoDB/Firestore persistence.