Robotics Graduate for hire
Koushik Balasubramanian

Professional info
I am currently pursuing my Master of Science in Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA. My interests are in areas including, but not limited to, Robot Control Systems finding applications in Industrial Automation and Manufacturing, Vision based navigation and manipulation.
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Work experience
Summer Intern
STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA LIMITED, SSP
May 2012 ( One month )
I had an intense hands on training with PLC/DCS for a multiloop plant control. The merits and demerits of various control scheme for factory automation was dealt
Summer Trainee
YOGIKI INC., CHENNAI, INDIA
May 2011 ( One month )
The training dealt with the construction of various types of ground robots such as differential drive robots, hexapod, biped and a 3 DOF robotic arm. In the process of development, I gained intense embedded programming skils.
Languages
C/C++
Python
Assembly Level Languages
Skills
MATLAB & Simulink
ROS
OpenCV
Solidworks
Gazebo & Moveit!
Arduino
labVIEW
ROBOTC
2010 - present
2010 - present
Education
Master of Science in Robotics Engineering
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, WORCESTER, MA
2014 - present
I am expecting to graduate in May 2016. I've completed one semester with a GPA of 4.0/4.0
The courses taken were :
Foundation of Robotics
Computer Vision
Model Based Design
Courses taken this semester :
Robot Control
Robot Dynamics
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Instrumentation
MADRAS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY , ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI, INDIA
2010 - 2014
I completed my undergraduate with a cummulative GPA of 8.21/10.
The major courses were :
Control Systems
Advanced Process Control
Sensors & Transducers Engineering
Applied Soft Computing
Embedded Systems
Data Structures & Algorithm
Industrial Instrumentation
Professional Development Training (Online Coursework)
"Control of Mobile Robots", Georgia Institute of Technology via www.coursera.org (Dec 2012 - April 2013)
"Artificial Intelligence", University of California, Berkeley via www.edx.org (Feb 2015 - Present)
"Introduction to Programming using Python",Massachusetts Institute of Technology via www.edx.org (Jan 2015 - Present)