Experience

Experience

A forty-person team, two national robotics challenges, and what each one returned.

7th overall, 3rd in positive pointsInter IIT Tech Meet 13.0, Ideaforge Drone Challenge — across all IITs.
Captain, Team PhoenixMember to vice captain to captain of a forty-engineer team, in two years.
ISRO Robotics Challenge 2025Selected to the IIT Patna contingent for the national challenge (IROC-U).
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In order

  1. 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

  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 06

    Aug 2024 — May 2025

    Sub-coordinator · Tinkerers Lab · IIT Patna

    Ran the institute maker space: equipment access, project support, mentoring.

  7. 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