Ayush Gupta

Junior Undergraduate

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Biography

I am a Senior Undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

I am broadly interested in Robotics, especially Computer Vision and Autonomous Systems. For the past two years, I have been part of an incredible team at AUV-IITK, and have been directly responsible for the design and development of an autonomous underwater vehicle. Apart from that, I have been a member of the Intelligent Guidance & Control Laboratory, where I have worked on the control of UAVs, realtime RGB-D reconstruction of indoor areas, and space dynamics.

I have been a founding member and a leader of the IITK Consult Group, where I have worked with the World Health Organisation, Talentedge and Moja Global on data science projects.

I am interested in puzzling and quantitative finance too, having interned at JPMorgan Chase & Co. as a quantative researcher. Find me curating some exciting puzzles at Mathemagic!

Interests

Robotics
Quantitative Finance
AI for Social Good

Education

B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, 2021 (expected)

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Experience

Machine Learning Intern

Moja Global

Sep 2020 – Present Mumbai, India

Developing solutions for AI-based deforestation prediction

Quantitative Researcher

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

May 2020 – Jul 2020 Mumbai, India

Worked on the price modelling of debt-equity in the U.S. muni markets

Machine Learning Consultant

Talentedge

Jan 2020 – Apr 2020 Gurugram, India

Ideated and implemented machine learning models for an edTech startup

Researcher

Intelligent Guidance and Control Laboratory

Aug 2019 – Present IIT Kanpur, India

Currently working on IIGP-funded project on Orbital Debris Mitigation. Using reinforcement learning for robust forward transition of tailsitter biplanes in air.

Team Captain

AUV-IITK

May 2018 – Present IIT Kanpur, India

Maintaining entire stack of an Autonomous Vehicle, eployed on Git, implemented using ROS, OpenCV and simulation integrated using Gazebo, while leading a group of 10 members

Sofware Developer Intern

New York Office, IIT Kanpur

May 2018 – Jul 2018 IIT Kanpur, India

Worked on the backend of a scalable concurrent multi-threaded website using Scala and Akka

Research Projects

Space Debris Mitigation using Guided Solar Sails

In this work we are proposing a novel and safe way of disposing space debris by utilizing Solar Radiation Pressure. A group of co-operative satellites are employed having large reflective surface capable of reflecting solar radiation, mimicking the design of ‘Solar Sails’. As a result of the co-operative action of the satellites, a force field is created which dispose the space debris either into a safe grave yard orbit or to a non-periodic orbit resulting in its mitigation by falling on to Earth’s atmosphere.

Realtime Onboard Dense RGB-D Mapping on UAVs

Implemented and evaluated the realtime RGB-D mapping of unstructured environments, using open-source packages

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