ABHISHEK NINAD KULKARNI37 William Street, Worcester, MA - 01609

(774) 701-2312 — www.linkedin.com/in/abhibp1993 — ankulkarni@wpi.edu

OBJECTIVE

Summer Internship/Co-op in Robotics Engineering

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Robotics Aug ’16 – May ’18Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA (CGPA - 4.0/4.0)Relevant Courses: Computer Vision, Probabilistic Robotics, Formal Methods in Robotics

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Telecommunication Aug ’12 – May ’16Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT), Pune, India (CGPA - 8.72/10)Relevant Courses: Control Systems, Mechatronics, Digital Image Processing

SKILLS

Programming: Python, C/C++, Embedded C, VB.NET, Shell ScriptTools: Robot Operating System (ROS), OpenCV, MATLAB, Gazebo, LATEX, Github, LinuxEmbedded Platforms: AVR, BeagleBone Black, Raspberry Pi, Arduino

PROJECTS

Vision based Object Detection and Classification, WPI Sept ’16 – Dec ’16

· Implemented robust color based game-canvas detection in cluttered environment using OpenCV, Python.

· Used homography to recover top-view of game canvas.

· Implemented model-based shape recognition to classify among different game objects.

Temporal Logic Motion Planner, WPI Sept ’16 – Dec ’16

· Implemented personality based A* algorithm for global path planning of self-driving car in Python.

· Synthesized sensor-triggered, behavior-based action plan to react to changes in the dynamic environment.

· Used game theoretic approach to guarantee satisfaction of high level temporal logic specifications, at all times.

Topological Motion Planning using Point-sets, VIT Jan ’15 – May ’16

· Designed an O(N logN) algorithm for complete construction of configuration space of robot in SO(2).

· Implemented point-based filters resulting in algorithm suited for parallel and distributed computing.

Curio - A Low Cost Robotic Platform, VIT Jan ’13 – May ’16

· Saved $1000 by designing a custom ROS based system architecture for low-cost research robotic platform - Curio.

· Implemented behavior-based controls by developing Extended State Machine framework on Curio.

· Implemented algorithms for real-time mapping, path planning, behavior-based control and visualization in Python.

· Programmed firmware for motor control, sensor interfacing, data processing and filtering for Arduino.

· Developed, from scratch, a customized simulator for Curio in pygame.

Optimization of Vehicular Grid, VIT Oct ’14 – Dec ’14

· Formulated multi-agent path allocation problem as a multi-variable optimization problem over graph.

PUBLICATIONS

· Patki, Siddharth Nitin; Joshi, Madhuri; Kulkarni, Abhishek Ninad, ”Dot matrix text recognition for industrialcarton classification,” Industrial Instrumentation and Control (ICIC), 2015 International Conference on, vol., no.,pp.777,782, 28-30 May 2015

· Abhishek N. Kulkarni, Anita S. Joshi, Satish R. Inamdar, Big Data Management Of A Cyber-Physical Multi-Location Chemical Factory, International Journal of Industrial Electronics and Electrical Engineering (IJIEEE),vol. no. 9-14, August 2014

ACTIVITIES AND LEADERSHIP

· Co-Founded Cognitive Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab (CRISTL) at VIT.

· Led team of 23 students at CRISTL to design Curio.

· Designed and conducted 36-hour course on ”Embedded Systems using Arduino” for Junior year students.

· Conducted 2-day workshop on ”Introduction to Robotics” for 9th graders.