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.
My core interest lies in enabling robots to perceive and adapt to nuanced human behaviour across modalities in order to enhance human-robot interactions.
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.
DOISubudhi, K.P. *, Pandey, A. *, Chandraprakash, C.
“A soft robot for the rescue of child trapped in borewell”
Proceedings of INCAM, August 2024 (in press). Springer Nature
* Equal contribution.
Awards
- Jayesh Memorial Award 2024, 57th Convocation, IIT Kanpur
Best project amongst graduating students - Winner, HackAIthon 2024, Cisco Systems
The project “Snooker Ball Tracking Using Computer Vision” won the global hackathon - ISSS Undergraduate Student Award 2023
For outstanding innovation in undergraduate research nationally - 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) 2018, 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