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I am a multidisciplinary engineer and applied researcher with over four years of experience in design, automation, computer vision and consulting, supported by a strong background in mechanical and mechatronics engineering.

My work focuses on developing intelligent and scalable technologies that address real world challenges in space, defense, energy, robotics, and human machine collaboration. Driven by hands on expertise, I have secured offers for full time technical, leadership and managerial roles across "Defense/Space, Telecommunications, Materials, Industrial automation (Logistics, Warehousing, and Agriculture), and Software (Machine Learning & Computer Vision)" domains and for research positions in India, UK & Germany, with a collecitve offer valuations of 320K USD (2021-2025, did not pursue every offer, due to other commitments).

I follow my personal 6P principle (Projects -> Prototypes -> Presentations -> Products -> Publications -> Patents) to cover the complete spectrum of innovation and research. 


Interested in collaborating with me? Kindly contact me.

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EXPERIENCE:

Independent Researcher, London

Aug/2025 - Present 

Conducting independent, interdisciplinary research across applied machine learning, robotics, and secure communication systems and system concepts intended for future product and venture development.  

  • Applied machine learning methods in Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Astronomy.
  • Design of multimodal steganographic pipelines across image, audio, video, and text domains.
  • Exploration of Generative Digital Twins and multi channel communication frameworks in robotics.
  • Research into robotic mechanisms, material handling systems, and engineering materials.
  • Application of Generative AI to robust steganographic and cryptographic processes.

Link to my works:

Freelancer (Automation, Robotics & Computer Vision)

Jul/2024 - Aug/2025. 

- Developed CDPR kinematics algorithms for pick and place operation.

- Designed and Manufactured 'Double Acting Pneumatic Actuator'.

- Designed and Manufactured consoles for transformers.

- Developed 'Computer Vision' algorithms for classificaiton and detection of products.

Director, Hecpaa AIM (OPC) Private Limited

Jul/2024 - Aug/2025. 

Founded HECPAA AIM (OPC) PVT LTD to address structural gaps in access to global higher education, particularly the reliance of traditional education financing models on family financial background, co-applicants, and collaterals. Existing national and international banks and NBFCs often exclude academically capable students due to rigid eligibility constraints, independent of merit or long term potential.
The objective was to explore a merit driven ecosystem that could connect eligible students to suitable universities while enabling full coverage education financing (tuition and living expenses) without co-applicants or collateral, and without restricting students to a narrow set of institutions and courses. The initiative focused on understanding systemic constraints across education consulting, student financing, and institutional partnerships, rather than short term placement outcomes. My responsibilities as a single founder include,

- Provided higher educaiton consulting services to students and professionals.

- Performed all the root management activities along with sales and marketing of the company.

- Conducted recruitment drive for multiple roles across the venture.

- Developed a static website representing business approaches, services offered etc.

- Closed the company to proceed with my higher educaiton pursuits.

Mechanical Engineer II (R&D), JMA WIRELESS, INDIA

Aug/2022 - Jun/2024.

Customers - DISH, VERIZON, VODAFONE

Project Consultant (Computer Vision & Automation), VIT Vellore, INDIA

Oct/2021 - Jun/2022. 

Design & Production Intern, Sickle Innovations Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, INDIA.

Aug/2021 - Sep/2021. 

Research & Development Intern, RCI, DRDO, INDIA

01/10/2020 - 31/05/2021

PRODUCTS (FREELANCING):

PRODUCTS (JMA):

MX08FRO665-00 (Lead, Mechanical R&D).

PRODUCT (VIT):

EDUCATION:

Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Master of Science, Machine Learning & AI (2025-2026).

Courses: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Applied Statistics, Natural Language Processing (LLMs, BERT, Transformers etc), Computer Vision (Image & Video Processing), VLMs & MLLMs.

Vellore Institute of Technology, INDIA

Master of Technology, Mechatronics Engineering (2019-2021).

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, INDIA

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering (2014-2018).

Additional Courses (Online):

University of Arizona

Astronomy - Exploring Time and space (2025-2026).

University of Geneva

Particle Physics: An Introduction  (2025-2026).

ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS:

  • Secured a funded PhD position at the University of Birmingham, in Material Science (focus on Nuclear Science), 2024&2025, co sponsored by TOKAMAK Energy, in collaboration with CNRS, University of Paris Saclay, University of Michigan, University of Tennessee, ORNL, KIT and Forschungszentrum Julich.
  • Secured several national and international recognitions spanning academia and industry, including patents, publications, hackathon & ideathon awards, and merit based scholarships from leading institutions and research organizations across the UK, USA, Germany, France, and Australia.


VOLUNTEERING:

Reviewer (Invited), Science Publications (Feb/2025 to Apr/2025)

  • Reviewed research papers on 'Robotics, Computer Vision & ML' at the 'Journal of Mechatronics and Robotics'.

Ideathon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, (March/2020 to Aug/2020).

  • Proposed design solutions for 'Hybrid energy generating system using HHO & Solar Power' at 'Energizing rural Africa during COVID-19 Ideathon'.
  • Proposed design concepts for 'Identifying the Immune using smart watch' at 'LATIN AMERICA VS COVID-19 Ideathon'.
  • Proposed design concepts for 'Optimal resource allocation using IOT in hospitals' at 'Beat the Pandemic Ideathon'.

INDEPENDENT PROJECTS:

  • Machine Learning based Photometric Redshift Inference on a Small SDSS DR18 Galaxy Dataset, 2025.
  • Image Steganography via Channel Coupled Pixel Intensity Combinations, 2025.
  • Multi Layer Steganographic Encoding in Text Layout Using Spatial and Raster Features, 2025.
  • Structured Pixel Cluster Encoding for Robust Text Raster Steganography, 2025.
  • A Unified Multimodal Steganography Framework via Glyph Level Text Encoding, 2025.
  • Automated Terrain Analysis with Texture Based Classifiers, 2025.
  • Home Automation using Hand Gesture Recognition and Image Processing Techniques, 2020.
  • Development of Automated Conveyor with Integrated Vision system for Grading and Sorting  of Vegetables - Working Model, 2020.
  • Position Control of Two Link Robotic Arm with Hand Gesture Recognition using MATLAB, 2020.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

  • Spatio Temporal LBP Framework for Dynamic Texture Understanding in Video Sequences, QMUL, 2025.
  • Real Time VisionSense: Adaptive Motion Tracking & Object Counting System, QMUL, 2025.
  • Developed a sentiment classification model (Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data) using BOW, TF-IDF, and Word2Vec features with an SVM classifier, QMUL, 2025.
  • Disease Identification in OKRA plant using Machine Learning and Deep Learning, associated with VIT,  Vellore, 2020. 
  • Surface Defect Identification of Leather Samples using Image Processing Techniques,  associated with VIT, Vellore, 2019.
  • Fuzzy logic based Color Grading and Classification of Leather Samples using Image Processing  Techniques, associated with VIT, Vellore, 2020.
  • Drowsiness Detection in Automobiles using Image Processing Techniques and Perceptron  Neural Networks, associated with VIT, Vellore, 2020.
  • Design and Development of Low Cost Turbine Based Ventilator - Working Model, associated  with VIT, Vellore, 2020.
  • Speech Recognition for Automated Machining operation using IOT, associated with VIT, Vellore, 2020.
  • Shape Memory Alloy based Wing actuation mechanism for Flapping wing Micro Aerial Vehicles,  associated with VIT, Vellore, 2020.
  • Design and Fabrication of Mobile Ball Transfer table with Integrated Lead Screw Mechanism  for transferring heavy machinery objects, associated with SBIT, Khammam, 2018.

SKILLS & TOOLS:

CAD & PRODUCT DESIGN:

AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Inventor, CATIA, Creo, Siemens NX, Solid Edge, DraftSight, Altium Designer 

SIMULATION & CAE

ANSYS (Structural, Thermal, Modal, Harmonic, Dynamics, CFD), HyperMesh, Abaqus, LS-DYNA, COMSOL Multiphysics 

CODING & DEVELOPMENT:

Programming: Python, MATLAB/Simulink, LabVIEW, SQL,  HTML , CSS, JavaScript
Industrial Automation: PLC (Ladder Logic - Siemens) 

DATA SCIENCE / AI:

 

  • ML: Linear & Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Gradient Boosting (XGBoost, LightGBM), SVM, KNN, Naive Bayes, Clustering (K-Means, DBSCAN), PCA, Feature Engineering, Cross-Validation, Regularization (L1/L2), Model Evaluation Metrics.
     
  • DL: MLP, CNN, RNN, LSTM, GRU, Transformers, Autoencoders, Representation Learning, GANs, VAEs, Diffusion Models, Attention Mechanisms, Loss Functions (CE, MSE, MAE), Optimization (SGD, Adam, LR Schedulers), BatchNorm, Dropout.
     
  • Multimodal AI: Text-Image Models, Audio-Text Models, Video-Text Models, Multimodal Embeddings, Cross-Attention Fusion, Image Feature Extraction, Audio Spectrogram Processing (STFT, Mel-Spectra), Video Frame Feature Engineering.
     
  • General AI: Data Preprocessing & Wrangling, Model Training & Tuning, Hyperparameter Optimization, Error Analysis, Explainable AI (SHAP, Grad-CAM), Model Compression (Pruning, Quantization), Experiment Benchmarking & Reproducibility.


  •  Data Science: NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Data Cleaning & Transformation, EDA (Exploratory Data Analysis), Statistical Analysis, Feature Engineering, Data Visualization (Matplotlib, Seaborn), Time-Series Analysis, A/B Testing, Hypothesis Testing, Data Pipelines. 

UI/UX & PROTOTYPING:

 Figma, Adobe XD, Canva 

DATA VISUALIZATION:

Tableau, Power BI, Plotly, Seaborn, Qlik Sense, Excel.

ERP / PLM / PROJECT SYSTEMS:

SAP, Salesforce Propel, Windchill,  Trello, Miro. 

MEDIA, RENDERING & ANIMATION

Photoshop, Illustrator, Filmora, Premier Pro, Adobe Audition, Lightroom, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Keyshot, Soundtrap.

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Uday Kiran Kandala

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