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Aumkar Renavikar

Pronounced Ohm-car Ray-nah-we-curr

About Me

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Hey there 👋! I am a UIUC graduate, with a degree in Systems Engineering, an interdisciplinary major combining the core engineering practicum with business and entrepreneurship foundations. Having completed a specialization in AI, you'll often find me building projects within the latest GenAI trends such as agents, mixed reality or on-device. While most of my previous work has been software-centric, I am deeply drawn to interdisciplinary fields such as robotics, brain-computer interfaces and wearables. When I’m not glued to my laptop or tinkering with robots, you'll find me playing the guitar, working out and playing tennis.

The field of robotics is at a pivotal moment. As robot adoption becomes more widespread, ensuring that robots deployed into the real world are safe and reliable is critical. I’ve chosen to pass up an opportunity to complete my Masters degree in AI & Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University to build an amazing team to changing the way we interact with robots. If you're interested in joining me on this journey or want to grab coffee, shoot me an email or on hit me up on LinkedIn.

Experiences

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Building a stellar team to make robots safe & reliable @ Dalus AI

San Francisco, CA | May 2024 - Present

Inspirit AI -> Stanford-based Ed-Tech startup making AI more accessible globally

AI/ML Instructor | Palo Alto, CA | June 2023 - May 2024

Led workshops and case studies in AI (GenAI, RL, NLP, CV, DL and ML), across domains such as autonomous vehicles, finance, medical, music, and aerospace. Collaborated with multiple educational institutions and non-profits such as Bellarmine Prep, Homestead High, FBLA and UNSLA.

3D-SPI2 Research Lab @ UIUC -> Lab innovating 3D packaging solutions for all kinds of engineering systems ranging from chips to ships to aircrafts

Research Assistant, Robotics & Machine Learning | Champaign, IL | January 2021 - May 2023

Worked extensively with robotic simulators, and applied RL algorithms to robotic arms with the goal of designing and fabricating microchips.

BMW

Software Engineer Intern | Greenville, SC | May 2022 - August 2022

Worked closely with two teams (Logistics + R&D) at BMW's IT Research Center, supporting BMW's largest manufacturing plant in the world. Worked on 6 different AI & Cloud projects while collaborating with internal teams based in Germany, Mexico and South Africa.

Michelin

Software Engineer Intern | Bangkok, Thailand | May 2021 - July 2022

Worked with the R&D Division for Aircraft Tyres in Thailand to deploy a CV solution into production, while collaborating with internal teams in China and India.

Karma Trade -> Sustainable fashion startup aiding the discovery of local curators & craft-makers

Founding Software Engineer | Champaign, IL | February 2020 - December 2020

Incubated and received funding from UIUC's iVenture Startup Accelerator under Cohort 6. Worked closely with the CTO to develop various software systems, and scaled startup operations to Miami and New York.

Highlighted Projects

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As someone who started coding at a young age, I have worked on a lot of projects over the years. Attaching the most notable ones here, but you can find all my projects here.

Autonomous Racing Car on the F1 Shanghai Track

Simulated a self-driving car that completed completed a full lap around the F1 Shanghai Track while avoiding obstacles such as other cars and pedestrians. Read more here.

Designing a 6-joint Robotic Arm for a Dental Tool Manufacturing

Designed an automated robotic arm solution capable of sharpening hand-held dental instruments such as scalars and curettes as a part of my Senior Design Capstone for a dental tool manufacturing company based in Chicago in half the budget, while increasing precision by a factor of 100. Read more here.

Datagod

Enterprise-grade RAG agent that restricts access to documents depending on user's role ensuring data governance. Read more here.

Wellbot

A Healthcare RAG agent that converses with users on WhatsApp to answer specific medical inquiries and provide estimated pricing information. Read more here.

Genio

A copyright-free music generation platform for content creators to create personalized music snippets for their content. Read more here.

Custom LLM for JCrew's website

Built a RAG agent to answer questions about products available on JCrew's website. Read more here.

MusicReal

Built BeReal for music that allows users to share the current song that they are listening to with their friends. Read more here.

Data Science Project for Caterpillar Inc. @ HackIllinois

Analyzed and predicted the most influential parameters impacting the performance of a machine. Read more here.

CAD Model of an Electric Screwdriver

3D modelled a Black+Decker hand-held electric screwdriver using Autodesk Inventor. Read more here.