Aayush Agrawal | CH21B003 | INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS | xx/EE/xx/xx

EDUCATION AND SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Program Institute % / CGPA Year
Bachelors in Technology, Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 8.13 2025
Grade XII (CBSE) Delhi Public School, Gurgaon 94.2% 2021
Grade X (CBSE) Delhi Public School, Gurgaon 96.7% 2019
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND PROJECTS
• Conducted research under the guidance of Dr. Himanshu Goyal, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, to develop
IIT Madras an RNN model for predicting the products of Biomass Gasification using multivariate time series forecasting techniques
• Experimented with various models, including LSTMs, Deep LSTM, Bidirectional LSTM, Encoder-Decoder LSTM, GRUs, etc.
Research Intern
• Managed and processed a massive dataset, working with over 70 channels and over 53,00,00,000 data points to train the
Apr‘22 - Nov’22
model effectively. Developed a multi-layered convolutional LSTM network for time series forecasting the data.
• Collaborated with a team of researchers to conduct extensive data analysis, testing, and optimization of the model.
• IGVC is an event hosted at Oakland University, Michigan. A US Army-sponsored event. The competition entries are
IGVC designed to navigate through an obstacle course in the shortest duration and need to be cyber-secure for deployment
Oakland University • Captained a team of 40 students to compete with over 30 teams and 4 countries for a cumul. prize pool of USD 20,000
Team Captain • Broke a 30-year record by being the 1st Indian team to win 1st place in the Auto-Navigation Design Challenge, since 1992
June‘23 • Won 1st place in the Cyber Security Challenge, delivered a presentation to Cyber Security Experts from the US Army
• Received a final score of 1296/1400 from automobile industry experts, the highest score the competition has ever seen
• The goal of the project is to create an automated robotic device for the precise targeting of abdominal organs and create
Inspire Lab, IIT Madras an intuitive surgical planning and navigation application that would eliminate manual guesswork and human error.
Research Intern • Implemented a TCP/IP socket to transfer data across distributed systems for the functioning of all subsystems.
May‘23 - Present • Conducted a literature review to develop a robust method to calibrate cameras and localize the tumor's location.
• Collaborated with a team of researchers to develop and create 3D simulations of the Kuka robot and Ultrasound machine.
• GIMBLE CONNECT facilitates seamless connections between influencers and sponsors for marketing deals.
GIMBLE CONNECT • Spearheaded initiation of the platform. Developed a full-stack web platform within an aggressive timeline of 3 months.
Co-Founder and CEO • Effectively secured pre-incubation at NIRMAAN, IIT Madras, and received a seed fund of INR 2 lac and office space.
Sep‘22 - Feb’23 • Facilitated consolidated negotiations through a many-to-many real-time chat feature developed with web Socket I/O
• Designed and implemented a sophisticated matching algorithm leveraging user data and historical deals to provide
tailored recommendations for optimal matches. Made use of clustering algorithms to basket users into different groups.
• Working on a 6-month research and development project with a focus on computer vision and underwater robotics
Planys Technologies
• The project statement is to develop a technique for stitching images and creating a 3D map of the surroundings for an
Intern
underwater ROV2 used for NDT3. The images are received from a monocamera that traverses along the ROV periphery
Research & Development
• Addressed challenges associated with underwater conditions including odometry drift, fault frames, and low stability
June‘23 - Present • Developing a slam based algorithm converting monocamera images to real-world depth, improving accuracy and stability
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Bolt, India’s first fully Autonomous Shuttle
• Engineered algorithms using a blend of stereo cameras, radars, GNSS, and IMUs to enable Bolt’s autonomous capabilities
• Spearheaded the perception team, and developed and implemented a robust ground-plane segmentation algorithm
capable of segmenting various obstacles such as potholes, effectively detecting lanes, and generating costmaps for planning
• Developed a heuristic pipeline for lane detection, including clustering lanes lines using sliding windows and curve fitting, to
identify and segment lanes, along with a memory-based implementation to predict and enhance the detection of fault lanes
• Increased the speed of data transmission by 150% by writing a ROS driver for the BNO05 9 DOF Absolute Orientation IMU
to transfer data from the IMU to the system. Developed a monitoring system to detect system failure and calibrate the IMU
Vikram, Team Abhiyaan’s entry for IGVC 2023
• Trained a Deeplabv3 for effective pothole semantic segmentation, generated the dataset using custom data and GANs
• Wrote a dynamic error model that uses the error propagation law to estimate the error, an upgrade over traditional
Co-curricular Affairs models which assume a constant error. This model allowed the Kalman filter to estimate the position more precisely.
Secretary, Team • The model significantly decreased the error observed in the loop closure test, from approximately 2m down to 10cm
Abhiyaan • Generated costmaps using a combination of voxel layers and laser scans. The voxel layer uses a downsampled point cloud
Perception Team Lead • Integrated different path planners like TEB(time elastic band), dwa, and carrot planner for optimal performance.
June‘22 - Present
Senior Software Engineer: Bolt, India’s first fully autonomous shuttle
• Developed a robust ground plane segmentation algorithm for lanes, spearheaded a perception team of 6 members
• Increased the speed of data transmission by 150% by writing a scalable ROS driver for the BNO05 9 DOF Absolute IMU
• Improved the Perception stacks computation efficiency by 30% to detect and classify obstacles, lanes, and potholes
Core: Business and Design Team
• Generated a cumulative sponsorship amount of 20 Lacs by negotiating deals with companies including CAT, Harmaan, etc
• Interacted with 200+ delegates during the G20 summit and Finance Minister, Commerce Minister, and Vice President x
• Secured a project worth approx INR 50L from the Dean of IAR for the development of a fleet of autonomous-shuttles
• Demonstrated how autonomous vehicles can reduce accidents by 87% to automotive experts at the World Trade Center
• Successfully secured the official merchandise sponsor for the competition, resulting in an INR 35,000 sponsorship deal
 Cultural Affairs • Organized a tree plantation drive with an NGO Viruksham, securing contributions worth INR 50K for planting 200+ trees
Secretary, Saarang • Reduced the risk of stampedes at the concert venue, by developing a crowd control system to track over 60,000 people
2023, QMS • Conducted data analysis on past events to identify time clashes and optimize scheduling to increase participation by 25%
Analyst
Analytics and
Sustainability,
Oct’22 - Jan‘23
AWARDS AND EXTRA-CURRICULAR
• Secured the Second Position in the Zonal Chess Championship, issued by the Central Board of Secondary Education.
Sports • Participated in the National Chess Championship, issued by the Central Board of Secondary Education, in Nov 2017.
• Bagged First Position in the Regional Chess Championship, issued by The Global Education and Leadership Foundation.
• Bestowed with a Blue Badge II for continued academic excellence for 5 consecutive years and Sports Proficiency in Chess
among 500 students ‘21
• Completed 9 levels of rigorous Abacus training under the BrainOBrain center and won the Gold Topper in the National
Abacus Competition ‘14
Academic
• Awarded the Certificat d’Excellence out of 400 students who wrote the Advanced level French Olympiad conducted by
Institut Francais INDE ‘15
• Completed 4 years of rigorous drawing and painting under the Bangiya Sangeet Parishad and received 1st distinction in
the final exam ‘14
• Bagged the 3rd Prize in the Arcana 24hr Hackathon with a prize pool of over INR 1 Lac, showcasing
skills in software development and analytics among 70 participating teams and 150+ code-writing
students. Created a web application utilizing transcripts and financial data, to provide stock market
insights for investors’ capital allocation, analysis, portfolio management, and performance monitoring.
Software
• Designed and presented a platform for stock price analysis and prediction at the Re-imagining Markets Datathon ‘22
• Among the shortlisted 15 teams, that presented to a jury comprising of founders and directors of Zerodha, SEBI, and SBI

• Educated students at Shiksha KENDRA, DPS Gurgaon, an initiative to educate underprivileged students free of cost ‘19
Social Work • Worked with a team of 50 people for CANKIDS, to organize engaging activities for 200 cancer-diagnosed kids ‘20
• Successfully managed a diverse investment portfolio valued at INR 50,000, delivering a profit-stocks ROI of over 10% ‘23
Commerce • Maintained a Youtube channel with over 100,000 subscribers and increased the CTR8 by 30% in a span of 3 months ‘23
• Presented a market entry plan to Unacademy, projecting a gross revenue of $53.4M for Crown Jewel IIM B Rubicon ‘22