Manan Agarwal Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

- Manage dozens of computer engineering, computer science and AI students to develop an autonomous racecar- Pioneer driverless in North America by helping FSAE introduce first NA driverless competition and promote the growth of other teams by providing a development framework for autonomous cars- Led documentation for entire software stack and open-source release viewable at cmr.red/driverless-docs- Make design decisions for mechanical, electrical and software systems (sensor selection, algorithm design, software interfaces)- Productionize software stack by introducing threading, shared memory parallelism and GPU partitioning

- Incoming Vice President of Driverless, CMR (June 2024 onwards)- Led new members to create testing framework for ROS2 nodes to ensure edge-case performance of software components like data association, Delaunay triangulation and raceline generation- Researched and developed SLAM pipeline based on iSAM2 algorithm [ROS2 / C++]- Leveraged Support Vector Machines (SVMs) to generate the midline between cones of different colors in real time- Translated EKF-SLAM and raceline generation pipeline from Python to C++ using Eigen, GSL2

- Designed Software-in-the-Loop, debugging / unit-testing environment for vehicle controls algorithms- Implemented Hardware-in-the-Loop, similar testing environment for custom PCBs controlling the powertrain, driver interface, etc. by simulating digital I/O and CAN communication on a microcontroller [FreeRTOS]

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

- Designed software for sensor-equipped robot arm to (a) follow surface defects by generating and analyzing point cloud information in real time, (b) conformally 3D-print by adding a 2-axis rotating platform- Generated gaits for modular robot (legs, wheels; up to 18 DOF) using RL algorithm proximal policy optimization; trained on thousands of robot instances with NVIDIA Isaac Gym simulation inside Docker container- Developed Python config manager to address automatic directory creation, YAML discovery and variable scoping

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Lead weekly labs, recitations, office hours and debug student code for Parallel and Sequential Data Structures & Algorithms which covers recurrences, trees, randomization, shortest paths, contraction and dynamic programming

Lead weekly labs, recitations, office hours and debug student code for Principles of Imperative Computation, a data structures and algorithms class in C

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Carnegie Mellon Racing, Biorobotics Lab, Undergraduate Consulting Club

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: FIRST Robotics Competition, DAIS Journal of Science