Experience

Research Affiliations and Supervisions

[February 2025 - Present] University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Supervisor: Dr. Miguel Olivares-Mendez

[September 2023 - June 2024] Keio University, Japan. Supervisor: Dr. Ishigami Genya

[Oct 2020 - Apr 2021] Independent Research. Mentors: Dr. Jagdish Raheja and Dr. S.N. Panda

Publications / Conferences

• Aman Arora, Matteo El Hariry, Miguel Olivares-Mendez, “Reinforcement Learning based 6-DoF Maneuvers for Microgravity Intravehicular Docking: A Simulation Study with Int-Ball2 in ISS-JEM”. Presented at AI4OPA Workshop at the International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo) 2025 at Sendai, Japan

• Aman Arora, S. N. Panda, Jagdish Raheja, Dimple Nagpal, “Development approaches to Intuitive, SSD & Haptics Integrated & Social HRI systems for assisting Space exploration”. IEEE Conference on Innovative Technologies in Intelligent Systems and Industrial Applications (CITISIA) at UNSW, Sydney, Australia (24-26 Nov 2021)

• Aman Arora, S. N. Panda, Sandeep Arora, Jagdish Raheja, “Proposed Design for AR Assisted Wearable Device for Emotion Recognition and Enhanced Learning and Training in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Auscare”. Design Engineering (Toronto) Volume: 2021 Issue: 08, pp. 12238-12251

Past Submitted/Published Patents

• Arora A., Arora S., Panda S.N., Raheja J.L., Saxena S., Randhawa J.S. (2021). “System to Provide Assistance in Autism Spectrum Disorder” Filed at Indian Patent Office, Application No. 202111028802

• Saxena S., Arora A. et al. (2020) “Braille Reading Device” Published as Indian Patent, Application No. 202011048731

• Saxena S., Arora A., Ghosh S.B. (2019). Communication Device for Visually Impaired People” Published as Indian Patent, Application No. 201911002961

Open Source

Google Summer of Code [May 2022 - Nov 2022] under Automotive Grade Linux, a sub-organization of The Linux Foundation

My recent talk titled: Bringing Offline Voice Recognition (using Vosk) to Automotive Grade Linux (GSoC 2022) at Automotive Grade Linux All Member Meeting Spring, Berlin, Germany:

Demo of Offline Speech Recognition onto AGL using Vosk at Embedded World 2023 at Nuremberg, Germany: Video Link

Industry

Field AI (Part-Time)

• On-sight field robot (Boston Dynamics Spot) deployment and management [November 2023 - April 2024]

Apple Inc.

• Network Automation Engineer [July 2021 - March 2022]
• Intern, Network Automation [January 2021 - June 2021]

NXP Semiconductors

• Summer Intern, Post Silicon Validation [May 2019 - July 2019]

Apart from that…

• Throughout my undergraduate journey, I have been involved in making various devices or projects that align with my vision.

• See msome of my past personal projects on my GitHub and here.

• I have come up with three Assistive Robotic devices, which have been published as patents.

• With my team, I have participated in 9 hackathons:

  1. Hashhacks 3.0, organized by Cluster Innovation Center, Delhi University
  2. Innovaccer HackerCamp-18, organized by Innovaccer Inc. and AWS, Noida
  3. MSHACKS 2018, organized my Microsoft and Incubate Ind.
  4. PayTM Build For India, organized by PayTM and IIT Delhi.
  5. Hack36, organized by MNNIT Allahabad
  6. HackData, organized by Shiv Nadar University
  7. HackDTU, organized by Delhi University
  8. Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2019, organized by MHRD, Govt. of India
  9. HackDelhi, organized by UltraHack, 91springboard

• Won first prize in 1, 5 and 8 (including the prestigious SIH-2019, India’s biggest hackathon)

• Were runner-ups in 2, 6 and 9.

• This crazy journey of travelling and participating in various hackathons, with my team, all over India taught me many skills, be it technical, leadership, public speaking (pitching) or problem solving.

• I have also done some training in VLSI Digital Design and FPGA Implementation from C-DAC (Center for Development of Advanced Computing).

Volunteering

• Develop Student Club, TIET
  • Co-Lead
    1. Conducted CS101 workshop with teammates to give introduction to some fields of CS to freshmen
    2. Helped start the Vehicle DAQ (Data Acquisition) project for DSC with Team Fateh (Motosports)
• IETE (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers) Students’ Forum
  • Mentor and Core member
    1. Conducted workshop to teach basic electronics to students, with an amplifier project
    2. Mentored 12 students and helped them with their personal projects and robots
    3. Conducted events: Arithmania, Elementos
• HackTIET
  • Organizer
    1. Organized North India’s biggest Hackathon with teammates
    2. Mentored participants who had IoT, Robotics or Flutter based projects
    3. We had participants from all various states across India
• Girlscript Chapter Patiala
  • Core Member
    1. Conducted workshops with fellow core members