Eashan Gupta

Experience

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  VIPTECH INC

  Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

  Software Development Intern

  Designed and built the layout for a comprehensive corporate website using CSS, HTML, and JavaScript for an IT organization to communicate service offerings, capabilities, and opportunities.Collaborated with the management to alter the design throughout the project to meet needs and requirements

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  Hume Center for National Security and Technology at Virginia Tech

  Sept 2021 - May 2022

  AI/ML Research Student - MITRE Workforce Development Program

  Created Python-based reinforcement learning algorithms and environment to train multi-agent systems for target containment under varied conditions; utilized Git and Jupyter Notebook for version control and visualization

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  SolarCar at Virginia Tech

  Sept 2021 - now

  Founder and Project Lead

  Founded the SolarCar at Virginia Tech student Design Team, a registered student organization of 50+ students that designs, builds, and races solar-powered electric vehicles in a multi-day, 1500-2000-mile endurance race.Developed STM32 microcontroller embedded code, enabling CAN packet exchange with BMS system for vehicle power-up and battery data collection. Utilized HAL for pin interaction and maintained 10 Hz data transmissionLed a cross-functional team of 50+ engineers in designing a vehicle from inception to completion, overseeing technical decisions, workflow coordination, and resolving challenges. Acquired and managed bulk of project budget of $100,000+ and fostered strong sponsor relationships for sustained supportDriving/Overseeing club activities in all aspects including registration, faculty integration, lab space management, car design and development, funding, outreach, competition submissions, project expansion, Senior Design, and safety while fostering a professional learning environment for all members Show less

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  ECE Ambassadors Virginia Tech

  Apr 2022 - now

  ECE Ambassador

  Present ECE information sessions, assist students and parents with ECE-related questions, volunteer at the ECE department hosted events

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  MITRE

  May 2022 - Aug 2022

  Developed ROS framework in Docker for Roomba control, adding collision avoidance via Turtlebot simulationsModified code for custom Roomba microcontroller interface, enabling color-based halting and turning Executed adversarial attacks on TensorFlow Object Detection API employing Adversarial Robust Toolboxtechniques, notably ShapeShifter, achieving 78% confidenceTrained ResNet50-based FasterRCNN models, optimizing hyperparameters (learning rate, batch size, epochs) for army tank detection in diverse Unity environments, achieving 80-85% average precision

  • Artificial Intelligence Part Time

    May 2022 - Aug 2022

  • Artificial Intelligence Intern

    May 2022 - Aug 2022
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  MITRE

  Nov 2022 - Feb 2023

  Artificial Intelligence Intern

  Developed interactive fire spread visualization with efficient client-server communication for real-timesimulations of large AI-generated data files (jsonl, h5 files)

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  MITRE

  May 2023 - Jul 2023

  Artificial Intelligence Intern

  Assessed Neural Radiance Fields’ (NeRFs) 3D rendering capabilities by rendering vehicles from grayscale imagesDeveloped a selection metric for 10 NeRF models from 100+, addressing setup issues, including environment setup, debugging, and code refinement, replicating results and extending implementation to custom datasetsConstructed an optimized pipeline by integrating open source NeRF code, employing COLMAP for imageprocessing, introducing vehicle masking, and executing object rendering using pretrained weights Show less