Sandeep Alankar Email & Phone Number

• Collaborating with DEVCOM ARL and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop autonomous robots for off-road exploration and lunar navigation
• Leading development for LiDAR inertial odometry package alongside updated object detection framework for deployment on off-road robots capable of autonomous missions

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Led SLAM efforts for custom “Autonomous for Electric” GoKart running 3D LiDAR SLAM on Ouster OS1 LiDAR along IMU, GNSS, and RealSense camera for outdoor Pure Pursuit loops
• Won 1st place in Open and Reactive categories at Autonomous Karting Series at Purdue University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Researched and evaluated performance and computational feasibility of autonomous agents running SLAM variants in unconstrained, dynamic environments by comparing trajectory and pose errors, scale drift, and map quality
• Developed fleet of continually operating autonomous service robots to give 7-minute tours of GRASP lab via Graph-SLAM

• Built 1/14 scale autonomous vehicle for use as a remote self-driving car testing platform
• Successfully trained Pioneer 3-DX differential drive robot with ROS to autonomously navigate through work environment using 4-level CNN trained off RealSense camera feed and sonar sensor inputs to object detection and.

• In charge of promoting both corporate and social events
• Collaborated with the Public Relations Committee to organize events
• Sent out weekly emails to members detailing ongoing and upcoming events
• Managed IEEE Facebook page

With the help of the PR Committee, I organized and hosted The Last Codebender, a fully online hackathon catered towards social good and positive change in the community. This event ran from 3/27 to 3/28 and had over 50 participating hackers of all grade and skill levels. We worked with the Rutgers Learning Centers, Rutgers Red Cross, and the Raritan Valley.

Rutgers University

• Prototyped and manufactured components for robotic control system in LabView for myRIO-powered nautical robot
• Engineered four-finned aquatic robot with omnidirectional swimming capabilities through precision machining and hydrodynamic design optimization

Marlboro, NJ

Master Of Science In Engineering - Mse, Robotics

Courses: Advanced Robotics, Machine Perception, Applied Machine Learning, Engineering Mathematics, Intro to Robotics, Product Design

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude

Courses: Intro to Computational Robotics, Robotics & Computer Vision, Data Structures, Computer Architecture, Intro to Artificial.