• Developed a plugin for Gazebo to simulate buoyancy in water under changing waves• Designed a Gazebo plugin to visualize forces acting on a body• designed an autonomous boat with low level thruster control, perception and path planning for internal testing

• Built an autonomous underwater vehicle from ground up• Focus on software architecture; ported the propriety architecture over to ROS; • Built several perception, control and mapping modules• Ranked 4th out of 56 teams at AUVSI RoboSub 2019

• Managed 10-25 electrical and software team members ranging from first-year engineering to graduate students• Designed system architecture for the robot based on ROS• Developed various GPU accelerated real-time computer vision modules for the robot using OpenCV and VLFeat• Designed and developed electrical systems including motor controllers, power systems and sonar system using EagleCAD and KiCAD• Trained new members in ROS (Robot Operating System)

• Prototyped a drone collision avoidance system for demo-day at Y-Combinator S2016• Built a reliable data acquisition system that was deployed on partner drones• Developed a drone visualization system for demos• Set up a deep-learning based object classification pipeline

• Used conflict resolution, community development and crisis management to manage a first-year engineering cohort floor• Developed an engineering mentorship program for first-year engineers