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Hi I’m Aryaman!

A machine learning and vision researcher with a demonstrated history of working in the Defence & Aerospace industry. I have a keen interest in the application of learning and computer vision for autonomy in robots.

I completed my Masters under Prof. Ufuk Topcu at UT Austin. My thesis research involved exploring ideas which push the limits of Robot Autonomy by utilizing Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Compositionality.

Beyond my technical expertise, I am a versatile athlete, excelling in football, swimming, squash, and badminton. I find joy in playing the piano, hiking, and discovering the unique charm of new places through travelling.

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More about me:

Things I’m Building

Resume

Experience

<aside> 🧑🏻‍💼 Machine Learning Engineer

SkyGrid, Austin, TX

June 2023 – Present

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<aside> 🧑🏻‍💼 Research Engineer

Multi AI, Austin, TX

Sep 2022 – Dec 2022

• Building an optimization framework for scalable, cooperative autonomy.
• Leading research for product development of an autonomous mission planner for safe and executable decision-making.
• Responsible for programming the backend solution with a Monte Carlo Tree Search engine for an optimization problem involving resource allocation in dynamic environments. </aside>

<aside> 🧑🏻‍💼 Machine Learning Intern

Third Insight, Austin, TX

May 2022 – Aug 2022

• Developed state-based and vision-based velocity controllers for autonomous object tracking using UAVs.
• Designed a simulation pipeline for verification of control algorithms and object detection methods on Microsoft AirSim.
• Revamped the computer vision pipeline. Led benchmarking, training and migration of object detection models for embedded systems.
• Programmed a feature extraction-based object tracking application using YOLOv5 and OSNet. </aside>

<aside> 🧑🏻‍💼 Graduate Research Assistant

Autonomous Systems Group, UT Austin

Aug 2021 – Present

• Assisting research in MDP/ POMDP formulation for verifiable autonomy of RL/IRL agents.
• Responsible for simulation of UGVs in a high-fidelity simulator and implementation on robots.
• Research on Hierarchical Control and Compositional methods for multi-agent cooperation and path planning. </aside>

<aside> 🧑🏻‍💼 Autonomous Systems Intern

NewSpace Research and Technologies, India

May – Jun 2019, Jan – Aug 2021

• Responsible for evaluation, development and deployment of CV models for aerial perception.
• Developed an application for autonomous target geotagging using UAVs.
• Administered the optimization of computer vision models for edge-computing using the Intel OpenVINO toolkit.
• Fabricated a highly modular Electro-optical/IR camera gimbal system which was deployed on a swarm of 75 drones. </aside>

<aside> 🧑🏻‍💼 Artificial Intelligence Intern

BEL Central Research Laboratory, India

Jun – Jul 2019

• Supported the AI team in developing a weather prediction system for the Air Force.
• Responsible for developing and training models for time-series forecasting using frameworks like Caffe, TensorFlow, Scikit. </aside>

<aside> 🧑🏻‍💼 Undergraduate Researcher

Manipal Institute of Technology, India

Jun – Dec 2020

• Analyzed SOTA single-stage algorithms including YOLOv4, YOLOv3, SSD for visible light/thermal image datasets.
• Modified the YOLOv4 architecture to make it more efficient and viable for UAVs. </aside>

Volunteering

<aside> 🫂 Fair Opportunity Project [Link]

• Helping underprivileged students with their college applications.
• Volunteering most primarily consists of providing feedback to their Common App essays. </aside>

<aside> 🫂 Code2College [Link]

• Assisting underrepresented student groups, which are interested in pursuing a STEM degree in college. </aside>

Education

<aside> 🎓 The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX

Master of Science: Aerospace Engineering (Track - Control, Autonomy and Robotics)

*Robotics Portfolio program *****

Thesis - Hierarchical and Compositional Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Systems [Link]

Aug 2021 – May 2023

GPA - 4.0/4.0 ****

Relevant courses: Robot Learning, Multi-agent Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, Aerial Robotics, Learning-based Optimal Control, Statistical Machine Learning Optimization, Verification and Synthesis for Cyberphysical Systems, Causality and RL.

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<aside> 🎓 Manipal Institute of Technology

Manipal, India

Bachelor of Engineering: Aerospace Engineering, Minor in Mathematical Computing

Thesis - Geotagging and Classification of Targets using Unmanned Aerial Systems

Jul 2017 – May 2021

GPA: 8.0/10.0

Relevant courses: Linear Control Theory, Deep Learning & Neural Networks, Avionics & Navigation Systems, DSA, Embedded Systems

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Research Publications

<aside> 📝 Title: A Multifidelity Sim-to-Real Pipeline for Verifiable and Compositional Reinforcement Learning

Authors: Cyrus Neary, Christian Ellis, Aryaman Singh Samyal, Craig Lennon, Ufuk Topcu

Status: Accepted, ICRA ‘24

Link - arXiv

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<aside> 📝 Title: Verifiable Reinforcement Learning Systems via compositionality

Authors: Cyrus Neary, Aryaman Singh Samyal, Christos Verginis, Murat Cubuktepe, Ufuk Topcu.

Status: Under review, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Link - arXiv

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<aside> 📝 Title: Hierarchical Control for Cooperative Teams in Competitive Autonomous Racing

Authors: Rishabh Thakkar, Aryaman Singh Samyal, David Fridovich-Keil, Zhe Xu, Ufuk Topcu.

Status: Published, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles

Link - arXiv

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<aside> 📝 Title: Hierarchical Control for Head-to-Head Autonomous Racing

Authors: Rishabh Thakkar, Aryaman Singh Samyal, David Fridovich-Keil, Zhe Xu, Ufuk Topcu.

Status: Accepted, Field Robotics

Link - arXiv

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<aside> 📝 Title: Analysis and Adaptation of YOLOv4 for Aerial object detection

Authors: Aryaman Singh Samyal, Akshatha K. R., Soham Hans, Karunakar A.K., Satish Shenoy B.

Link - arXiv

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Awards and Honours

<aside> 🏆 Academic and Co-Curricular

• World Rank 4th in Lockheed Martin SAE AERO DESIGN ’20, held in Lakeland, Florida, USA
• World Rank 5th in Lockheed Martin SAE AERO DESIGN ’19, held in Fort Worth, Texas, USA
• Certificate of Appreciation for Academic Excellence (GPA - 9.59)
• Placed 2nd in the Airbus Disaster Management Drone Challenge held in IIT Bombay as a part of Techfest ’19
• Placed 3rd in the Boeing National Aeromodelling competition held in IIT Bombay as a part of Techfest ’19
• Placed 1st in Albatross National Aeromodelling and Flying competition held in NIT Calicut as a part of Tathva ’18
• Placed 1st in Aerophilia National Aeromodelling competition ’19
• Placed 2nd in Aerophilia Drone racing competition ’19
• 3rd Rank - National Air Force Quiz competition </aside>

<aside> 🏅 Athletics and Sports

• 2nd Place, Revels Football Cup
• 1st Place - InterMAHE '19 Football tournament
• 2nd Place - InterMAHE '18 Football tournament
• MIT football league ‘19 - 1st Position
• MIT football league ‘18 - 2nd Position
• Manipal Inter-college Football League ‘18, ‘19 - 1st Position

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