ASHWIN PRAKASH / ECE @ UT AUSTIN

Hi, I'm Ashwin.

Senior in Electrical & Computer Engineering at UT Austin. Interested in computer vision, machine learning, and full-stack.

See my projects Enter the 3D world

Austin, TX/ECE @ UT Austin · Class of 2027

ASHWIN PRAKASH01 / ABOUT

ECE @ UT Austin
Class of 2027

01 / PROJECTS

Projects

Research, internships,
and side projects.

10 projects to explore

Machine learning01

1,500VQA items · zero human annotation

Workshop paper · DataMFM @ CVPR 2026

VQA-Disagree

Using disagreement between vision-language models to measure what makes a question difficult.

Robotics02

28 → 71%mean real-world task success

RobIN Lab · submitted to CoRL 2026

DAVATaR

Teaching robots to manipulate objects across the air–water interface with vision, touch, and depth.

Machine learning03

43,264satellite tiles · 10 years of imagery

Forecasting Austin–San Antonio megacity convergence

Silicon Prairie

Forecasting the Austin–San Antonio corridor through a decade of satellite imagery.

Applications04

SecondLensHackMIT · computer vision × memory

HackMIT · smart-glasses memory graph

SecondLens

Turning everyday interactions into a searchable memory graph with smart glasses.

Hardware05

40+components · one handheld arcade

PCB design + embedded firmware

Handheld Arcade Game

A hand-soldered game controller and Asteroids, built from PCB to embedded firmware.

Machine learning06

5technical indicators · Streamlit dashboard

Technical-indicator forecasting on Streamlit

Stock Price Predictor

An interactive forecasting dashboard with market data pipelines and technical indicators.

Applications07

3dining halls · personalized meal plans

Texas Convergent F24 · team of 7

Plate 'Em

Personalized meal planning built around menus from UT Austin’s dining halls.

Applications08

Steamboardgames · players · data visualization

Steam data dashboard

Steamboard

A React dashboard for exploring Steam game and player statistics.

Machine learning09

Sat3DGSsatellite imagery → 3D reconstruction

Satellite 3D Gaussian Splatting

Sat3DGS

Exploring 3D reconstruction from satellite imagery with Gaussian Splatting.

Applications10

Explore in 3DNext.js · React Three Fiber

The world you're standing in

This Portfolio

The 3D version of this résumé — a small plaza you walk around with a robot.

02 / EXPERIENCE

Experience

Internships and lab research,
most recent first.

Aug 2026 – PresentSaronic TechnologiesSoftware Engineering Intern · Texas Convergent

Building a Python Gym-style API (reset, step, observe) around NVIDIA Isaac Sim — a closed-loop virtual ocean for testing autonomous boat software without a boat in the water.
Integrating a boat dynamics model so autonomy control inputs update boat state and the simulator renders camera observations back to the stack in real time, with configurable scenarios for RL navigation training.

Jun 2026 – PresentAmazonSDE Intern · Computer Vision (Amazon Key, Devices)

Designed a serverless pipeline on AWS (Lambda, EventBridge, API Gateway, S3), provisioned via the AWS CDK in TypeScript, automating the Amazon Key installation-audit workflow.
Trained and fine-tuned detection and classification models (YOLO, ResNet) in PyTorch to verify device installation and flag wiring and component anomalies from real-world captures.
Layered lightweight checks using CNNs, DINOv2 embeddings, and Claude Sonnet 5 vision calls to surface installation anomalies for review.

Sep 2025 – May 2026Autonomous Mobile Robotics LaboratoryRobotics Software Engineer · Sensor Fusion & Perception

Implemented sensor-fusion pipelines combining LiDAR, IMU, and camera data to improve localization accuracy by 27%.
Implemented open-source visual SLAM and object-tracking modules in ROS 2, reducing pose-estimation drift by 18%.
Deployed real-time perception and control modules on NVIDIA Jetson for onboard navigation and obstacle avoidance.

Jun 2025 – Aug 2025Dell TechnologiesSoftware Engineering Intern

Built an AI-powered sprint reporting system with LangChain and Gemma, automating Jira analytics and cutting report generation time by 50%.
Trained and deployed a Random Forest classifier at 91% accuracy for issue-spillover prediction, improving triage.
Added a RAG pipeline (bge-m3 embeddings + Elasticsearch vector store) and containerized the backend with Docker.

Feb 2025 – May 2025Coley GCSBackend Software Engineer Contractor · Texas Convergent

Built an internal CRM on Supabase + PostgreSQL with row-level security, authentication, and granular user permissions.
Integrated a fine-tuned Gemini LLM to extract and cluster key topics from PDFs, automating contract analysis.
Engineered backend pipelines and parsers for ingesting government contracts with metadata tagging and search.

Jan 2024 – May 2025Paradigm RoboticsStudent Software Engineer

Fine-tuned YOLOv5 on a custom thermal + optical dataset in PyTorch for reliable human detection in low-visibility field robotics.
Built C++ drivers for optical and thermal sensors, streaming to ROS nodes in containerized Docker/Ubuntu.
Built a real-time robot control GUI with OpenCV, WebSockets, and TCP/IP on an embedded Linux Raspberry Pi.

Jun 2023 – Aug 2023Omron Robotics & Safety TechnologiesSoftware Engineering Intern

Built and deployed a FastAPI REST service on AWS EC2 with password auth, a NoSQL credential store, and Postman-tested endpoints.
Integrated a ROS Turtlebot with an OMRON robot fleet, publishing real-time 2D location data to the fleet manager for control of up to 10 robots.

03 / ABOUT

A bit about me.

I’m a senior studying Electrical & Computer Engineering at UT Austin, with a Robotics minor. I’m mostly interested in computer vision, machine learning, and full-stack work.

Most of my experience so far has been internships and lab research. A few of my other interests are tucked into the 3D plaza.

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering

Robotics minor · GPA 3.7 · May 2027

Relevant coursework

Algorithms · Software Testing · Software Design & Implementation · Data Science Lab · Software Lab · Probability & Random Processes · Embedded Systems · Linear Algebra · Discrete Mathematics

04 / SKILLS