Aman Sunesh — Building intelligent systems across AI, robotics, sensing, and scientific computing

I’m a Computer Engineering student at NYU Abu Dhabi, currently studying away at NYU Tandon, with a minor in Applied Mathematics. My work spans efficient LLM inference, autonomous navigation, robot vision, MNAR time-series modeling, quantum sensing, and full-stack scientific software. I build systems end-to-end: from hardware-aware ML evaluation pipelines and visual SLAM navigation stacks to NV-center quantum sensing tools, PK/PD simulation platforms, and reproducible probabilistic modeling code.

3.987Cumulative GPA
157MOD-Year Migration Flows Modeled
2.10×LLM Latency Speedup vs FP16
0.051 mVisual Maze Navigation Error
1stBest Research Poster, NYUAD ’25
Portrait of Aman Sunesh

Publications

Modeling Information Blackouts in Missing Not-At-Random Time Series Data

Preprint

MNAR-aware state-space modeling for traffic sensors, treating blackout patterns as an informative observation channel. The work separates blackout-window imputation from post-blackout forecasting and benchmarks against LOCF and MAR LDS baselines.

About Me

I work across AI, robotics, experimental sensing, and scientific software. At NYU Tandon, I have worked on large-scale migration–hazard modeling, efficient LLM inference, robot vision, and autonomous navigation systems. At NYU Abu Dhabi, I helped build a full-stack NV-center quantum diamond spectrometer and a PyQt6 control GUI for code-free experiment execution. I also lead software/modeling work for synthetic biology projects, including a PK/PD modeling platform for simulation, fitting, dosing-regimen design, and automated reporting. I care about systems that are technically rigorous, reproducible, and useful beyond a demo.

LocationNew York, NY

Skills

Programming Languages

Python C++ JavaScript HTML CSS C# VHDL

Machine Learning & Scientific Computing

PyTorch TensorFlow Scikit-learn NumPy SciPy Pandas Matplotlib

Computer Vision & Robotics

OpenCV MediaPipe A* SLAM LiDAR Mapping AprilTags Unity

Quantum & Experimental Tools

Qiskit QuPyT QuTiP NI-DAQ PulseBlaster NV Centers

Web, Databases & Tools

FastAPI Flask React PyQt6 MySQL MongoDB Git Jupyter LaTeX MATLAB Cadence Vivado LTspice Arduino QGIS OpenStreetMap

Spoken

English Hindi Malayalam Arabic

Experience & Research

Incoming Research Assistant, Building Informatics and Visualization Lab (BiLAB)

NYU Tandon School of Engineering • New York, USA
Starting Jun 2026
  • Selected to develop Python/PyTorch models for predicting driver gaze behavior from eye-tracking and biometric signals collected in a naturalistic driving simulator environment.
  • Working on a human-in-the-loop autonomous driving safety project focused on modeling driver visual attention and state for more human-centered AV systems.
  • Preparing multimodal data-processing, gaze-prediction, model-evaluation, and driver-attention analysis pipelines.
PyTorchEye TrackingBiometric SignalsAutonomous DrivingHuman-in-the-Loop AI

Research Assistant, Dynamical Systems Lab

NYU Tandon School of Engineering • New York, USA
Feb 2026 – May 2026
  • Designed and implemented a large-scale tract-level migration–hazard modeling framework linking 157M origin–destination-year flows from 2011–2019 with FEMA National Risk Index exposure, socioeconomic, housing-affordability, and geographic covariates.
  • Developed Poisson gravity-model specifications to test how wildfire, flooding, storm/hurricane, and earthquake exposure reshape migration flows through origin/destination risk, distance-decay, and housing-affordability interaction channels.
  • Stress-tested model findings through spatial confounding checks, geographic sensitivity analyses, alternative hazard specifications, calibration diagnostics, and bootstrap sign-stability tests.
PythonPoisson ModelsMigration ModelingHazard RiskGeospatial Analysis

Research Assistant, Shabani Lab

New York University • New York, USA
Sep 2025 – Dec 2025
  • Patterned Al/Pt thin-film bilayers into Hall bars and 4-probe test wires using photolithography, wet etch, and lift-off workflows.
  • Sputtered aluminum and platinum with controlled thickness; verified film quality and uniformity for device fabrication.
  • Performed hard-bake process steps to stabilize photoresist profiles prior to wet etch or lift-off.
LithographyDevice FabricationSputter DepositionThin FilmsExperimental Design

Software Lead, iGEM Team

NYU Abu Dhabi • Abu Dhabi, UAE
Jan 2025 – Nov 2025

🏅 iGEM 2025 Gold Medal and Best Integrated Human Practices: Recognized for CDG-focused synthetic biology work and stakeholder-informed project design.

  • Led full-stack development of a PK/PD modeling platform using React and FastAPI, supporting 1–3 compartment models across IV, oral, and SC routes.
  • Implemented interactive dosing-regimen design, per-subject fitting with SciPy, KPI extraction, visual predictive checks, linear/semilog plots, and automated PDF reporting.
  • Designed PD coupling that consumes PK concentration-time curves and returns effect-time series, including antibiotic kill dynamics and EV-to-PMM2 activity mapping.
ReactFastAPISciPyPK/PDModelingPDF Reports

Student Research Assistant, Center for Quantum & Topological Systems (CQTS)

NYU Abu Dhabi • Abu Dhabi, UAE
Sep 2024 – Sep 2025

Engineered a full-stack quantum diamond spectrometer setup for NV-center sensing.

  • Executed precision optical alignment including beam focusing, AOM diffraction, and polarization control.
  • Synchronized RF/MW pulse sequences with NI-DAQ acquisition through PulseBlaster timing and implemented APD-based photon detection.
  • Led development of a PyQt6 software control interface for NV quantum-sensing experiments, replacing manual CLI workflows with standardized, reproducible experiment setup.
  • Presented NV-based sensing workflow and hardware–software integration to Mubadala UAE executives and research team.
  • Presented at NYUAD Summer Research Symposium 2025 and won 1st Place for Best Research Poster.
PythonPyQt6QuPyTDAQPulse ControlQuantum Sensing

Engineering Volunteer, URBZ

Dharavi, Mumbai, India
Jan 2025 – May 2025

Produced emergency-response routing and recharge strategies for Koliwada using field surveys, GPS, and open mapping.

  • Mapped critical emergency routes using field surveys and GPS, producing actionable maps with OpenStreetMap and QGIS.
  • Engineered an 8-minute fire-response plan by sizing pump/nozzle systems and proposing dual-use overhead tanks for firefighting and daily water supply.
  • Proposed reviving defunct wells as percolation pits based on soil tests and urban recharge methods.
OpenStreetMapQGISField WorkUrban Systems

Campus Spaces Committee Chair, Student Government

NYU Abu Dhabi • Abu Dhabi, UAE
Aug 2024 – May 2025

Led 15+ cross-department projects improving water access, Wi-Fi, laundry, sustainability, and student-facing infrastructure using feedback-driven systems.

LeadershipProject ManagementSustainabilityStakeholder Coordination
More roles

Peer Tutor — Mathematics and Engineering

NYU Abu Dhabi ARC / NYU OASIS
Aug 2024 – Present
  • Provided 100+ hours of academic support in calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, and undergraduate electrical/computer engineering courses.
MathematicsEngineeringTutoring

Software Engineering Fellow, Headstarter

Remote
Jul 2024 – Jan 2025
  • Coached by engineers from Amazon, Bloomberg, and Capital One on Agile, CI/CD, Git, and microservice patterns.
  • Led 4+ fellows to deliver projects end-to-end using MVC patterns.
SoftwareAgileCI/CD

Projects

ModeSwitch-LLM

Workload-aware request-boundary controller for single-GPU LLM inference, routing across FP16, GPTQ 4-bit, INT8, speculative decoding, prefix caching, and hybrid modes. Achieved 2.10× mean latency speedup and 0.48× energy ratio vs FP16 on synthetic workloads while preserving benchmark quality.

Efficient AILLM InferencevLLMQuantizationA100

Autonomous Indoor Navigation with LiDAR and AprilTags

End-to-end hardware navigation stack combining 2D LiDAR occupancy-grid mapping, wheel-encoder odometry, AprilTag landmark localization, A* planning, corridor centering, and emergency obstacle stopping.

RoboticsLiDARAprilTagsA*ArduinoOpenCV

Autonomous Maze Navigation Using Visual-Geometric SLAM

Three-layer autonomous navigation system for the AI4CE Visual Navigation Challenge using exploration images, live FPV input, offline visual-geometric mapping, RootSIFT-VLAD localization, epipolar target refinement, and direction-aware A* planning. Completed the maze with 0.051 m final translation error.

Robot VisionVisual SLAMRootSIFT-VLADA*OpenCV

Modeling Information Blackouts in MNAR Time Series

MNAR-aware linear dynamical system for traffic sensors, combining EKF, RTS smoothing, and EM training to model state-dependent blackouts. Evaluates blackout-window imputation separately from k-step post-blackout forecasting.

Time SeriesKalman FilteringEMMNARPython

QuPyT GUI for Quantum Sensing

PyQt6 interface for configuring NV-center quantum sensing experiments through YAML templates, code-free run launch, automated pulse-sequence setup, and real-time ODMR fitting.

PythonPyQt6GUI DesignExperiment AutomationQuantum Control

EV-PK Simulator

Web app for PK/PD fitting and simulation with 1–3 compartment models, KPI extraction, dosing-regimen builder, VPCs, and automated PDF export.

ReactFastAPISciPyPK/PDWeb Development

Bandhani-to-Modern Style Transfer

PyTorch CycleGAN pipeline for unpaired cultural style transfer between Bandhani textile motifs and modern-art patterns, with preprocessing, adversarial/cycle-consistency training, checkpoint loading, and a Gradio demo.

PyTorchGANsImage ProcessingDeep LearningGradio

Airline Ticket Reservation System

MySQL-backed airline reservation system with a Flask web app, supporting flight search, ticket purchase, trip history, and staff dashboards on a normalized relational schema.

MySQLFlaskSQLBackendWeb App

Lossless Traffic Compression

Achieved 700×–2000× lossless compression of traffic matrices using feature-based sampling and matrix completion. Implemented full encoding, decoding, and BCD optimization in NumPy/SciPy.

Data AnalysisMatrix CompletionTraffic ModelingCompressionPython

Fashion-MNIST DCGAN

PyTorch DCGAN trained to generate Fashion-MNIST clothing from latent vectors, with full adversarial training pipeline, loss tracking, and checkpointed models.

PyTorchGANsDeep LearningGenerative Modeling

NV ODMR Simulator

Simulation tool for ODMR spectra and NV-center sensing experiments, built to accelerate quantum-sensing validation and workflow development.

PythonSimulationQuantum SensingScientific Computing

eCampusExplorer

Voice-navigated 3D campus tour of NYU Abu Dhabi built in Unity with teleportation, voice transcription, and interactive scene switching.

UnityC#3D SimulationVRInteractive UX

Custom 14-bit Microprocessor

Designed and implemented a 14-bit signed microprocessor in VHDL with a 16-instruction ISA, ALU, branching, and seven-segment FPGA display.

FPGAVHDLMicroarchitecture

Education

New York University Abu Dhabi

B.Sc. Computer Engineering • Minor in Applied Mathematics
Aug 2023 – May 2027
Cumulative GPA3.987 / 4.000
Coursework
  • Applied Machine Learning
  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Mathematical Modeling
  • Data Analysis
  • Quantum Computing
  • Circuits and Digital Logic
Activities
  • Student Government — Campus Spaces Committee Chair
  • Peer Tutor — Mathematics, ARC
  • NYUAD Quantum Association
  • iGEM — Software/Modeling Lead

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Study Away • B.Sc. Computer Engineering
Aug 2025 – May 2026
GPA4.000 / 4.000
Coursework
  • Probabilistic Time Series Analysis (Graduate Level)
  • Efficient AI & Hardware Accelerator Design (Graduate Level)
  • Computer Networking
  • Databases
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Robotic Manipulation & Locomotion
  • Robot Vision
Activities
  • Peer Tutor — Engineering, OASIS
  • Research in dynamical systems, driver attention, robotics, and efficient AI.

The Coding School

Quantum Computing
Sep 2024 – Apr 2025
Focus
  • Quantum algorithms and cryptography
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Python-based labs and projects

GEMS Education

High School Diploma
Apr 2009 – Mar 2023
ScoreCBSE 97.6% (Senior Secondary)
Highlights
  • Principal’s Award for Excellence
  • Leadership Council Member

Certifications & Awards

iGEM 2025 Gold Medal Best Integrated Human Practices

International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition
  • Recognized for CDG-focused synthetic biology work integrating stakeholder feedback into technical decisions.
  • Role: Software & Modeling Lead for the PK/PD modeling platform.

Best Research Poster 1st Place

NYUAD Summer Research Symposium 2025
  • Project: NV-center quantum sensing / quantum diamond spectrometer system with hardware–software integration.

IBM Quantum Excellence Badge Award

IBM
  • Awarded for successfully completing Qiskit labs on quantum programming, transpilation, error suppression/mitigation, and quantum simulation.

International Youth Math Challenge Silver Honor

IYMC
  • Recognized for mathematical problem-solving performance in an international competition.

Qiskit Global Summer School 2024 Certification

IBM • Qiskit
  • Hands-on labs in circuit transpilation, error suppression and mitigation, and simulating nature at utility scale.

5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google Certification

Kaggle • Issued Dec 2025
  • Training in agentic AI development and practical AI-agent workflows.

NYU Startup Bootcamp Certification

NYU Entrepreneurial Institute • Issued Oct 2025
  • Completed NYU venture-building bootcamp focused on startup fundamentals and execution.

International Computer Science Competition 2025 Milestone

ICSC
  • Algorithmic problem solving across graphs, dynamic programming, combinatorics, and optimization.

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