Experience
Experience
A forty-person team, two national robotics challenges, and what each one returned.
In order
- 01
May 2025 — May 2026
Team Captain · Team Phoenix · IIT Patna
Led forty engineers across three sub-teams to build two competition robots for ABU Robocon.
- Owned the technical direction and the scope calls that kept three sub-teams shipping in parallel
- Architected the autonomy stack: vision-based ball detection, SLAM localisation, motion planning
- Ran the full cycle from design review through simulation proof to arena testing
MemberVice CaptainCaptain
- 02
Apr 2025 — Apr 2026
Flagship Coordinator · Celesta · IIT Patna
Ran the flagship event of Celesta, IIT Patna’s annual techno-management festival.
- Coordinated logistics, technical execution, and volunteer teams across domains
- Acted as the interface between the organising committee, sponsors, and participating teams
- 03
Jan 2025 — May 2025
Contingent Member · ISRO Robotics Challenge (IROC-U) 2025
Dynamic mapping and navigation for drones over simulated Martian terrain.
- Autonomous exploration across unstructured, GPS-denied ground
- Fed directly into the transformable aerial–ground robot built to the same brief
- 04
Oct 2024 — Dec 2024
Contingent Member · Inter IIT Tech Meet 13.0 · Ideaforge Drone Challenge
Built single-motor failure detection and recovery for quadcopters. Placed 7th overall and 3rd in positive points across all IITs.
- Detection and control-reallocation logic on modified PX4 firmware
- Validated attitude recovery and controlled landing in Gazebo simulation
- 05
Sep 2024 — May 2025
IoT Lead · Google Developer Groups on Campus · IIT Patna
Ran the campus IoT programme — workshops that took people from bare board to prototype.
- Mentored students on ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and sensor integration projects
- Designed hands-on sessions rather than lecture-format workshops
- 06
Aug 2024 — May 2025
Sub-coordinator · Tinkerers Lab · IIT Patna
Ran the institute maker space: equipment access, project support, mentoring.
- 07
Jan 2024 — Jul 2024
Team Member · DD Robocon 2024 · IIT Patna
First competition run: PID control, embedded programming, mechanical integration.
Education
B.Tech + M.Tech (Integrated) — Electronics & Communication Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Patna · 2023 — 2028