Projects

A selection of robotics, AI, and deep learning projects — from differentiable physics and autonomous drones to financial forecasting and large-scale vision models.

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Vision-Guided Differentiable Physics for Robotic Manipulation

Robotics · 2025

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End-to-end perception-to-control framework that uses 3D Gaussian Splatting and differentiable physics to identify object properties and plan contact-rich robotic manipulation.

RoboticsDifferentiable Physics3D VisionSystem Identification

S&P 500 Deep Learning Forecasting System

Machine Learning · 2025

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Temporal Fusion Transformer–based system for forecasting S&P 500 returns from mixed-frequency macroeconomic and market data, with ARIMAX and LSTM baselines.

Time-SeriesFinanceTransformersForecasting

Autonomous Drone Navigation System

Robotics · 2025

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Full-stack autonomous quadrotor system combining computer vision, SLAM, optimal control, reinforcement learning, and waypoint navigation.

DronesSLAMReinforcement LearningControl

Automated Goalie: Ping Pong Ball Trajectory Prediction System

Robotics · 2025

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Real-time system that tracks a ping pong ball with YOLOv8 on a Raspberry Pi and steers a servo-driven goalie by predicting 3D trajectories.

Computer VisionTrajectory PredictionEmbedded SystemsReal-Time Robotics

IntelliCart – IIoT Smart Factory Vehicle

Systems / IIoT · 2025

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An IIoT-enabled smart factory cart with end-to-end stack from edge control on a Raspberry Pi to central fleet analytics dashboards.

IIoTEdge ComputingRoboticsDashboards

Descriptive Question Answering System

NLP · 2021

Transformer-based descriptive question answering system using a fine-tuned BERT model and sentence-ranking pipeline, published at an IEEE conference.

NLPQuestion AnsweringInformation RetrievalTransformers

Deep Learning & Research

GAN & Diffusion Experiments on Custom Datasets

Generative Modeling · 2025

Comparative study of DCGAN, Progressive GAN, and diffusion models on faces, synthetic colored squares, and a custom animal image dataset.

GANsProgressive GANDiffusion ModelsGenerative Modeling

Vision Transformer Segmentation & Depth-Based Lens Blur

Computer Vision · 2025

Selfie segmentation and realistic lens-blur simulation using pretrained segmentation and monocular depth-estimation models.

SegmentationDepth EstimationImage Effects

SIREN Image Fitting with Custom Activation

Neural Fields · 2025

High-resolution image representation using sinusoidal representation networks and a custom activation variant.

SIRENImplicit RepresentationsNeural Fields

GRU-Based Music Generator

Generative Modeling · 2025

Sequence model that generates symbolic music with controllable temperature and musical parameters.

RNNGRUMusic GenerationSequence Modeling

Perceptual Loss Engineering & Turbulence-Robust Metric

Deep Learning · 2025

Systematic study of VGG-based perceptual losses under shifts, noise, and depth-aware atmospheric turbulence, with a new turbulence-robust weighting scheme.

Perceptual LossVGG16Image QualitySimulation

Vision Transformer PV Defect Classification

Deep Learning · 2025

Fine-tuning ViT-B/32 on a class-balanced photovoltaic infrared defect dataset to achieve high-accuracy multi-class classification.

Vision TransformerImbalanced DataTransfer LearningPV Defects

Custom ResNet-36 + SmoothReLU on ImageNet

Deep Learning · 2025

Custom ResNet-36 architecture and SmoothReLU activation that improve ImageNet-scale training from scratch with minimal parameter overhead.

CNNsResNetActivation FunctionsImageNet