I am a Masters Student at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. I work at the intersection of Perception in Robotics and Machine Learning. I like to develop algorithms based on differential geometry and leverage them for building intelligent robotic systems. I am advised by Dr. Sonia Chernova at the RAIL Lab.

I received my B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kanpur with my capstone project advised by Dr. Abhishek. I have minors in Machine Learning, Computer Systems and English Literature. I’ve done research internships at Helicopter and VTOL Lab (2024), Carleton University (2023), WSN Lab (2022).

Seeking Summer 2025 opportunities: I am currently looking for paid internship opportunities in areas related to Software/ Robotics/ Computer Vision/ Sensor Fusion in the U.S. If my portfolio (CV) seems applicable for the job you are recruiting, please reach me out on rustagirahul24@gmail.com

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Jan 2025 :	Graduate Teaching Assistant in Spring 2025 for the course CS3630: Introduction to Robotics and Perception under Dr. Sonia Chernova
Aug 2024:	Our paper on "Vision-Guided autonomous UAV landing on moving ship" got accepted in 2025 AIAA SciTech Conference to be held in Orlando, Florida
Aug 2024:	Starting Masters in ECE at Georgia Tech in ECE
Apr 2024 :	Successfully defended my BTech thesis in Safe Landing of VTOLs on Unstable Platform
Feb 2024 :	our paper on extending previous work to mobile IoT networks with a multi-objective data offloading and charging function got accepted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Aug 2023 :	our paper on employing novel deep reinforcement learning algorithms for time-effecient energy transmitting scheduling in low-powered IoT networks got accepted at the 2022 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)