SINCE 2025
Qualcomm
Senior Staff Multimedia Systems Engineer
- Adaptive Vision-Inertial Fusion
- Exterior-to-Interior Photo Mapping
- Mobile-AR Perception on the SoC Stack
- Geometry and Learning for Vehicles
COMPUTER VISION ENGINEER · QUALCOMM · USC
Abhishek Tyagi
San Diego, California
He built the layer that tells vision-inertial systems which sensor to believe.
Abhishek Tyagi engineers 3D perception at Qualcomm's Multimedia Systems group, where he returned in 2025 after building vehicle vision at Rivian and AR-camera algorithms inside Samsung's SoC R&D. During seven years in Qualcomm's XR research group he co-invented six patents on vision-aided inertial navigation, including the adaptive-switching method that reduces the inertial signal the moment a tracked target starts to move. The through-line reaches back to a DoD robot he gave SLAM to as an intern.
- 31Forward citations, adaptive-switching patent
- 6Qualcomm patents co-invented
- 7.5 yrsLongest tenure, Qualcomm XR research
- 2033Flagship VINS patent active through (EP)
HAPPENING NOW
STANDING TODAY
HOW THEY THINK4 BELIEFS
Four convictions run under fifteen years of 3D perception.
THE IMPACT
The record is mostly patents — pull one out.
EVERYTHING ELSE · 3 WORKS
THE TIMELINE
One problem — where is the camera, and what is around it — carried across four employers.
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2022-PRESENT
3D perception for vehicles, then back to Qualcomm
At Rivian (2022–2025) Abhishek pushed 3D perception onto vehicles — multi-camera SLAM, surround-view calibration, and high-precision-GNSS AR navigation — while building a GenAI in-car assistant that finally joined his geometric and deep-learning halves. In January 2025 he rejoined Qualcomm as a Senior Staff Multimedia Systems Engineer.
“Worked as key contributor in developing computer vision and AI applications on Rivian vehicles.”
2018-2022
AR camera systems in Samsung's SoC R&D
Inside Samsung Semiconductor's SoC R&D group (2018–2022) Abhishek added a depth sensor to the camera-and-IMU fusion he had patented at Qualcomm, moving to RGB-D-inertial odometry, and built on-device 3D reconstruction for AR — all under a chip's power and compute budget.
“Worked as key contributor in the AR camera project in Samsung SOC R&D group.”
2010-2018
Inventing mobile AR in Qualcomm's XR research group
Seven years in Qualcomm's XR research group (2010–2018) produced his patent portfolio: six inventions on vision-aided inertial navigation and hybrid photo mapping, filed 2012–2014. Here the ViSER robot idea matured into mobile AR — device-pose tracking, room-scale 3D reconstruction, and merging maps across sessions.
“Worked as key contributor in the XR research group.”
2008-2010
USC signal processing and the ViSER robotics prototype
The shape of the whole career was set here: a statistical-signal-processing MS at USC, then a four-month DoD-funded internship at UtopiaCompression where Abhishek built a SLAM-based 3D-reconstruction prototype for a ground robot — the localize-while-mapping problem that has defined every role since.