Resume

Basics

Name Shailesh
Label Undergraduate
Email shailesh.xml@gmail.com
Summary A highly motivated student with a passion for robotics and artificial intelligence.

Work

  • 2024.12 - Present
    MARMOT Lab: National University of Singapore (NUS)
    Researcher Intern
    Project: Long Horizon Mobile Manipulation.
    • Developing a manipulation-aware locomotion policy for long-horizon mobile manipulation tasks.
    • Fine-tuned generalist πο (VLA) manipulation policy on custom dataset.
    • Previously worked on fine-tuning VLM models for reason based image segmentation.
  • 2024.08 - 2025.05
    CIR: IIIT Allahabad
    Research Intern
    Project: Robotic Grasping
    • Designed grasping policy leveraging ViT-based visual features.
    • Performed real robot experiments with Kinova Lite manipulator.
  • 2024.05 - 2024.07
    ERC Lab, National Taiwan Normal University
    Robotics Intern
    Project: Collaborative control of upper & lower body of wheeled humanoid robot using multi-agent RL.
    • Trained robust policy to maneuver and jump in Isaac Gym environment.
    • Trained collaborative policies for upper and lower body, using MAPPO, IPPO & Dual-A2C.
    • Developed a unified policy enabling the upper body to perform manipulation tasks while the lower body concurrently handled balance and maneuvering.
  • 2023.12 - 2023.12
    Stochastic Robotics Lab, Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bangalore)
    Robotics Intern
    Project: RL-based locomotion controller of legged robot.
    • Trained a unified RL policy achieving 4 distinct gait behaviors, improving locomotion diversity.
    • Robot trained on teacher-student curriculum learning.
    • Developed a ROS package for the same robot platform.
    • Transferred the RL policy into ROS (Gazebo) environment.
  • 2023.02 - 2024.04
    TEXMIN (Technology Innovation Hub)
    Project Assistant
    Project: Development of in-house Quadrupedal Robot for Mining Application.
    • Developed ROS based framework for a in-house developed Quadrupedal Robot.
    • Derived kinematics & dynamics for the robot.
    • V1: Locomotion controller using ZMP stabilization.
    • V2: Reinforcement Learning based control policy.
    • Hardware testing of locomotion controller.

Education

  • 2021.08 - 2025.05

    Dhanbad, India

    Bachelors of Technology
    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT ISM), Dhanbad
    Electrical Engineering
  • 2018.04 - 2021.03

    Gaya, India

    12th Grade
    Al Momin International School, Gaya
    High School

Publications

Awards

Skills

Programming
Python
C++
Linux
Git
ML/AI
RL
ViTs
VLMs
Diffusion Models
Simulation/Visualization
Isaac Sim
Gazebo
RViz
CoppeliaSim
Simulink
Frameworks/Libraries
ROS/ROS2
PyTorch
Open3D
MoveIt
OpenCV
Matplotlib
Hardware
Jetson Orin
Microcontrollers
Servo Actuators
Power Electronics
IMUs
3D Printing

Interests

Robotics
Computer Vision
Legged Robots
Humanoid Robots
Control Systems
Embedded Systems
Microcontrollers
Sensor Interfacing
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Foundation Models
Computer Vision

Projects

  • 2024.08 - Present
    mini_GPT
    Personal Project. Implemented GPT-3 style transformer model architecture from scratch. Model was trained on Shakespeare Dataset.
  • 2022.12 - 2023.02
    Inter IIT Tech Meet 11.0 - Drona Aviation Problem Statement
    Worked on accurate pose estimation of drones using ArUco Tag and a single monocular camera.
    • Hovering a pluto drone on a particular height using ArUco Tag.
    • Move the drone in rectangular motion (1 x 2 meter).
    • Make the second drone follow the first drone.
  • 2023.03 - 2023.12
    Two-Wheeled Self Balancing Robot
    Developed a custom cascaded PID-based controller for a two-wheeled self-balancing robot.
    • Developed a custom cascaded PID based controller that incorporate acceleration value as well.
    • Simulated our robot in Gazebo(cascaded PID controller) and in Simulink(with LQR controller)
    • Designed and build a two wheeled robot in hardware from scratch.