About me

Hello there! I completed my bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2024. During my undergraduate years, I worked on developing a shape-memory alloy-based variable stiffness actuator, exploring LSTM-based control and reinforcement learning frameworks for dynamic modulation. I also built a vine-like soft robot designed for rescuing children trapped in borewells and contributed to the autonomous underwater vehicle Anahita, where I integrated SLAM-based navigation systems. Anahita now competes internationally at events like SAUVC and RoboSub in San Diego. Additionally, I served as the General Secretary of Science and Technology, representing over 8000 students and managing all technical clubs and societies on campus.

Currently, I’m working as a Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, India. My work focuses on real-time cloud infrastructure for indoor localization and asset tracking using Wi-Fi and Meraki camera feeds. I led the development of a “Snooker Ball Tracking System,” which won the global Cisco HackAIthon 2024. This project involved real-time object detection from RTSP streams, custom dataset training, and Arduino-based laser actuation to automate foul detection, achieving a 95% reduction in decision latency through homography-based projection.

Selected Publications

• Pandey, A., Haneef, J., Sinha, Y., Chaurasiya, K.L., Bhattacharya, B.
  “Design and Control of a Shape-Memory Alloy Based Variable Stiffness Actuator.”
  Proceedings of SPIE Smart Structures + NDE, May 2024.
  DOI

• Subudhi, K.P., Pandey, A., Chandraprakash, C.
  “A soft robot for the rescue of child trapped in borewell”
  Indian National Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM), August 2024 (in press)
  Abstract (Paper ID-152)

Awards

• International Conference on Micro, Nano and Smart Systems (IC-MNSS 2024)
  Best undergraduate student project award
• Jayesh Memorial Award 2024, IIT Kanpur
  Best project amongst graduating students
• Winner, HackAIthon 2024, Cisco Systems
  The project “Snooker Ball Tracking Using Computer Vision” won the global hackathon
• Silver Medalist, Inter-IIT Tech Meet 10.0
  Runner-up among the 23 IITs for developing an IoT-based cloud health-monitoring system
• Finalist, Techkriti Open School Championship (TOSC), IIT Kanpur
  Selected among top 50 nationwide to present a smart card-based fuel efficiency project
• UPSTSE Scholar, Government of Uttar Pradesh, India
  Awarded for academic excellence and research potential