ROBOTICS R&D ENGINEER
Lakshya Jain
MS Robotics & Autonomous Systems, ASU. Building causal RL systems, embodied AI, and real-world robot deployments.
CAUSAL RL
ROS2 / MOVEIT
EMBODIED AI
SIM-TO-REAL
FEATURED PROJECTS
ASU THESIS · NOV 2025
Discover-Intervene-Adapt (DIA)
Interpretable causal RL with structured world models and intervention strategies. 35%
reduction in Montezuma exploration time, 15x CoinRun generalization improvement.
1ST PLACE
DEVIL'S INVENT HACKATHON · DEC 2024
IntuitionAI
RAG-based adaptive tutoring agent using multi-modal transformers and RL for
curriculum sequencing. 40% perceived learning efficiency gain.
LOGOS LAB, ASU · IROS 2026 (ACCEPTED)
Meanings & Measurements: Multi-Agent Probabilistic Grounding (MAPG)
Multi-agent probabilistic framework for vision-language navigation. Grounds
natural-language instructions to metric-semantic scene representations, surpassing VLM baselines by 20%
accuracy.
UNREAL ENGINE 5.4 · ASU
AI Therapist in VR
AI-powered conversational agent for mental health therapy in VR. RAG LLM based on
LLAMA with speech recognition and adaptive RL dialogue generation.
GOVT. FUNDED
LTA LAB, IIT BOMBAY · DST
Project HERCARA
Govt. funded (Dept. of Science & Tech.) swarm of VTOL autonomous UAVs, aerostat,
robotic arms, and embedded safety systems.
PERSONAL PROJECT · OCT 2025
Robotic Chess Arm Digital Twin
Franka Panda in Isaac Sim with URDF articulation, trajectory control, virtual
perception, and ROS interfaces for sim-to-real transfer.
3RD PLACE
HONEYWELL ANTHEM HACKATHON
Flight Autopilot System
RAG LLM-based autopilot taking over all autopilot tasks and automating plane
features. Top-3 at Honeywell's Anthem Hackathon for aviation AI.
#6 WORLDWIDE
SAE AERO DESIGN EAST · 2022
Rayar RC Airplane
Advanced class RC airplane capable of payload drop and small glider deployment.
Gliders autonomously fly a custom sequence. #6 worldwide.
PUBLISHED
KJSCE GRADUATE PROJECT
Forest Surveillance Rover
Swarm of RPi & Arduino Mega rovers with object, animal, and fire detection,
autonomous navigation, and multi-modal operation. Published in IJRASET.
ASU PERSONAL PROJECT · AUG 2025
Snydrone
LLM-driven ROS2 cinematic drone planner translating natural-language prompts to
trajectories. 30% framing consistency improvement in simulation.
EXPERIENCE
AUG 2024 — DEC 2025
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Arizona State University
Delivered lectures for Perception in Robotics and Data Structures & Algorithms.
Improved student assessment performance by 20% through structured lesson design. Mentored projects on
transformers, attention, and multi-modal LLM pipelines.
AUG 2024 — NOV 2025
ML Research Aide
DeSmart Lab, NSF Brain Center
Built adaptive RL-driven lighting prototypes for medical applications. Achieved 15%
below-SOTA NASA TLX mental demand ratings. Implemented end-to-end ML pipeline with automated tuning and
AWS/GCP deployment.
AUG 2022 — JUL 2023
R&D Systems Engineer
Indrones
Developed autonomous drone ML pipelines for surveillance and target tracking. Enabled
reliable GPS-denied operations at 6000+ m Himalayan altitudes. Built predictive maintenance toolkit
reducing system failures by 50%.
JUN 2021 — MAR 2022
Research Intern
LTA Lab, IIT Bombay
Created deep-RL precision landing system for VTOL aircraft achieving 2 cm visual test
accuracy. Implemented edge ML weather and emergency recognition at 99% accuracy.
PUBLICATIONS & DISTINCTIONS
PUBLICATIONS
- IROS 2026 (Accepted): Meanings and Measurements: Multi-Agent Probabilistic Grounding for Vision Language Navigation — Project Site →
- NeurIPS 2026 (In Progress): Discover, Intervene, Adapt: Causal RL with Interleaved Discovery and Learning
- IJRASET: Multi-level architecture for a swarm of surveillance rovers — DOI →
- IJRASET: Image Classification and Object Following Functions for Mobile Robots — DOI →
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Impact Award Nominee, ASU
- 1st Place — Devil's Invent Hackathon
- 3rd Place — Honeywell Anthem Hackathon
- #6 Worldwide — SAE Aero Design East Advanced Class 2022
- #2 Worldwide — SAE ADE Regular Design Report 2020
- TSMC AZ Fellowship · Ira A. Fulton Fellowship · ASU Grad Fellowship
TECHNICAL SKILLS