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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 sponsored positions in India, UK & Germany (2021-2025, with a collective offer valuations of 320K USD, did not pursue every offer).

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 (Robotics & AI), LONDON

Aug/2025 - Present 

Pursuing independent, interdisciplinary research across applied machine learning, AI,  robotics, and secure communication systems.  

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

Link to my works:


FOUNDER & DIRECTOR, HECPAA AIM (OPC) PVT LTD

Jul/2024 - Jul/2025


MECHANICAL ENGINEER II, JMA WIRELESS, HYDERABAD, INDIA

Aug/2022 - Jun/2024.

Clients - DISH, VERIZON, VODAFONE

Markets - USA, EUROPE, AUSTRALIA


PROJECT CONSULTANT (AUTOMATION & COMPUTER VISION), VIT VELLORE, INDIA

Oct/2021 - Jul/2022. 

Client - ITC INDIA

PRODUCTS (JMA):

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

MX12FIT765-HG (Lead, Mechanical R&D)

MX12FIT865-HG (Lead, Mechanical R&D)

MX08FRO465-00 (Assisted, Mechanical R&D)

MX08FRO865-00 (Assisted, Mechanical R&D)

Luneburg Lens (R&D)

(Patented)

PRODUCT (VIT):

EDUCATION:

Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, INDIA

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

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, INDIA

Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

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

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, INDIA

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, INDIA

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, INDIA

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

ADDITIONAL COURSES (ONLINE):

Astronomy - Exploring Time and space,  University of Arizona, 2025-2026.

Particle Physics: An Introduction,  University of Geneva, 2025-2026. 

ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS:

  • Received Cash Award for a patent on CBRS Lens Antenna, JMA Wireless, 2025.
  • Secured a funded PhD (96000 GBP) 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 (45000 GBP) from leading institutions and research organizations across the UK, USA, Germany, France, and Australia (2019-2025).
  • Special Achiever, International Events, VIT Vellore, 2021.
  • Achiever, National Events, VIT Vellore, 2021.
  • Secured 'Second Runner Up' position at International Design Hackathon, by University of Queensland, Australia, 2020.
  • Best Research Paper Award, ICSET-2019, VIT Vellore, 2019.

VOLUNTEERING:

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

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

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

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).

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

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'.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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