Piyush Kumar
Hey, This is Piyush Kumar, a graduate from IIT Kanpur (IITK). I did my BTech major in the Department of Electrical Engineering with two minors from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Computer Systems and Theory of Computing. Currently, I work at American Express as a Software Engineer. I've been an active member of Aerial Robotics IITK during my undergrad, where I worked on various Robotics projects and competitions. My interests lie in Robotics, Computer Vision, AI and Software Development in general.
To be honest, many things interest me that I haven't explored enough, like Virtual and Augmented Reality, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Cognitive Science, Genetics, Philosophy and Psychology, which I explore through reading books in my leisure.
A Quote
Every single person deserves respect and love.
Research explorations
My thoughts on research papers that I explore. More for the purpose of tracking my learnings.
Software Development Engineer
American Express, Bangalore, India
July 2023 - Present
Working in Payment Tokenisation team in which we develop and maintain the lifecycle of tokens that we generate from customer card numbers.
Undergraduate Researcher
Advisor - Prof. Twinkle Tripathy , Deparment of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
July 2022 - May 2023
Worked on designing a control law for an agent having unicycle kinematics using a potential function based on a Barrier Lyapunov Function (BLF) to autonomously stabilize it upon a circular trajectory while avoiding a restricted inner circular region.
Technology Intern
American Express, India
May 2022 - July 2022 (Secured a Pre-placement Offer)
Worked on migration of applications from private to public cloud based on their confidentiality and risk.
Research Intern
Mentor - Prof. Gerardo Flores CIO, Mexico
May 2021 - July 2021 (Remote)
Learnt Fundamentals of RL. Conducted Literature Reviews. Explored Hybrid Reinforcement Learning Control for a micro quadrotor flight. Implemented RL-based controller for warehouse robot. Explored DDPG algorithms for bipedal walking robots
DRDO's UAV Guided UGV Navigation Challenge
10th Inter IIT Tech Meet, IIT Kharagpur
Worked on a problem of UAV guided UGV navigation in hilly terrain. Won Bronze Medal in this event
DRDO's DGRE Vision Based Obstacle Avoidance Drone Challenge
9th Inter IIT Tech Meet, IIT Guwahati
Worked on a problem of Vision based obstacle avoidance using UAV. Won Bronze Medal in this event
International Aerial Robotics Competition
Mission 9 Simulation Challenge
Worked on International Aerial Robotics Competition, Mission 9 simulation challenge as part of the team Aerial Robotics IITK. Ranked in Top 12 teams worldwide
Autonomous Driving
Done as part of the course CS637A
Implemented the research paper Rule-based Optimal Control for Autonomous Driving
SDF Planning Library
Aerial Robotics IITK
Explored autonomous navigation and path planning based on generation of Truncated and Euclidean Signed Distance Fields from depth pointclouds using Voxblox
Map Generation
Aerial Robotics IITK
Developed a software to generate a 2D map of an area using OpenCV in simulation
Twitter Name Changer Bot
Built a Twitter bot capable of updating my profile name based on my number of followers. Used Heroku for Deployment