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

RESUME LINKEDIN GITHUB

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.

CAUSAL RL PYTORCH DEEP LEARNING GYM / SIM

GITHUB →

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.

UNREAL 5.4 RAG / LLAMA DEEP RL

GITHUB →

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.

RAG LLM CURRICULUM RL

GITHUB → LIVE DEMO →

LOGOS LAB, ASU · IROS 2026 (SUBMITTED)

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.

ROS2 SCENE GRAPH NLP DEEP LEARNING

GITHUB → PAPER →

THREE.JS · PERSONAL PROJECT

K-VRC

Real-time 3D robot avatar with a generative emotion and facial expression system trained on demonstration data from Netflix's Love, Death + Robots. Emotion state drives procedural lighting, bloom, and body language. Chat interface runs a live LLM with voice input; a sidenote panel surfaces contextual project insights as you explore the portfolio.

THREE.JS / WEBGL LLM CHAT IMITATION LEARNING EMOTION AI BEHAVIOR CLONING VOICE INPUT

LIVE SITE → GITHUB →

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.

ROS EMBEDDED CV

GITHUB → PAPER →

PERSONAL PROJECT · OCT 2025

RobotChessPlayer

Two Franka Panda arms on opposite sides of a shared board in Isaac Sim 4.2 perceive game state, plan staged motions with MoveIt 2, and execute alternating turns via a ROS 2 coordinator. White plays classical engine; black runs a learned RL policy behind the same FEN-in / UCI-out interface.

ROS2 ISAAC SIM MOVEIT 2 DEEP RL PERCEPTION

GITHUB →

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.

RAG / LLM SAFETY AI

GITHUB →

#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.

EMBEDDED AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT

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.

RPi / ARDUINO OBJECT DETECTION DEEP LEARNING

PAPER →

ASU PERSONAL PROJECT · AUG 2025

Snydrone

LLM-driven ROS2 cinematic drone planner translating natural-language prompts to trajectories. 30% framing consistency improvement in simulation.

ROS2 LLM TRAJECTORY

GITHUB →

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.

TEACHING — CSE 310 DATA STRUCTURES & ALGORITHMS

Bubble & Insertion Sort

Heaps, Heapsort & Priority Queues

Project 2 Walkthrough

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Exam Review

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Exam Review: DFS, Edge Classification & Topological Sort

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Final Exam Review

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PUBLICATIONS & DISTINCTIONS

PUBLICATIONS

IROS 2026 (Submitted): 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

CAUSAL RL CAUSAL DISCOVERY DEEP RL CURRICULUM LEARNING IMITATION LEARNING WORLD MODELS REWARD SHAPING INTRINSIC MOTIVATION ROS / ROS2 MOVEIT SLAM NAV2 MPC PATH PLANNING (A*, RRT) SENSOR FUSION URDF / XACRO TRAJECTORY CONTROL ARDUPILOT / PX4 ROS2 CONTROL RAG SYSTEMS TRANSFORMERS NLP MULTI-MODAL LLMs LANGCHAIN LLAMA PROMPT ENGINEERING SCENE GRAPHS OBJECT DETECTION POINT CLOUD (PCL) DEPTH ESTIMATION YOLO VISUAL NAVIGATION PYTORCH TENSORFLOW DEEP LEARNING PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS ISAAC SIM GAZEBO PYBULLET ISAAC LAB UNREAL ENGINE 5 SOLIDWORKS FUSION 360 CAD MODELLING ROBOT KINEMATICS PYTHON C++ RASPBERRY PI ARDUINO EMBEDDED LINUX DOCKER KUBERNETES AWS / GCP WANDB / MLFLOW GIT / CI-CD