CV

General Information

Full Name Avneesh Mishra
Date of Birth 27th May 1999
Languages English and Hindi

Education

  • 2021 - Present
    MS by Research (CSE)
    International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
  • 2016 - 2020
    B.Tech. in Mechatronics Engineering
    Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
    • Mechatronics system design, microcontrollers, digital logic
    • Basic Robotics (kinematics, dynamics, path planning)
    • End-Term Report

Experience

  • Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
    Consultant
    ARTPARK, RBCCPS, IISc Bangalore
    • Teleoperation project with Team Aham for the ANA Avatar XPrize challenge
    • Experience with HTC Vive VR headset, Unity, ROS (RViZ, kinematics with Eigen)
    • Basic Research Domains
      • Web-streaming setup to match telepresence settings [YouTube]
      • Teleoperation of a robotic arm [YouTube]
      • Mobile platforms
  • Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
    Student Intern
    Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, DRDO
    • B.Tech. Final year practice school. Development of a Quadruped Robot.
    • Developed a quadruped test platform (software and embedded program)
    • Introduced to basic research
      • Literature review of legged robots, actuators, gait algorithms
  • Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
    Laboratory Teaching Assistant (Part Time)
    Manipal Institute of Technology
    • Robotics Lab I (MTE 2162) for third-semester students
  • May 2019 - Jul 2019
    Internship Trainee
    ABB Bengaluru
    • IRB Robots, projects related to pick and place, palletizing, welding, and automatic coordinate measurement machine. Collaborative robots, ABB RobotStudio.
    • GUIs using TKinter (Python)
  • Nov 2018 - May 2019
    Technical Head
    ISA Manipal Students' Section
  • Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
    Student Project - Team Member
    RoboManipal, Manipal Institute of Technology
    • Was the head of research and development (Mar 2018 - end)
  • May 2018 - Jul 2018
    Research Intern
    Sirena Technologies Private Limited
    • My first experience with computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics (kinematics), and various software frameworks.

Open Source Projects

  • 2022 - Present
    FeatMF
    • In development. A framework which combines local and global image feature methods and related downstream tasks into one package. Currently on-hold due to other obligations.
  • 2022 - Present
    MLHub
    • In development. A central repository of various models (training, good documentation, and inference). Currently on-hold due to other obligations.

Honors and Awards

  • 2020
    • Branch topper in Mechatronics (B.Tech.)
  • 2018
    • Quarter-final Round of IICDC (India Innovation Challenge Design Contest) 2018 - DST & Texas Instruments

Academic Interests

  • Computer Vision
    • Local, global, semi-global, and sequence descriptors
    • Mapping and Localization, Structure from Motion, Bundle Adjustment
  • Deep Learning
    • Various detection and description pipelines

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Reading, finance, walking, listening to music, food