Shantnav Agarwal

Associate Consultant

Delft, South Holland, Netherlands5 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Pioneered multi-UAV payload transport technology.
Developed innovative acoustic perception for autonomous vehicles.
Led award-winning autonomous disinfection robot project.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Robotics and Machine Learning expert with a focus on autonomous systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Embedded SystemsMachine LearningComputer VisionAutonomous Vehicles

Other Skills

ACADOSAutowareC++LeadershipLiDARMATLABPublic SpeakingPyTorchPythonReinforcement LearningRobot Operating System (ROS)TensorFlowUnmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

Experience

Tu delft | mechanical engineering

2 roles

Graduate Student Researcher

Nov 2024 – Aug 2025 · 9 mos · Delft, South Holland, Netherlands · On-site

Multi-UAV Cooperative Manipulation (Imitation Learning)
Designed and deployed decentralised ML policies on quadrotors, enabling multiple UAVs to collaboratively transport payloads along agile, real-time trajectories.
Trained policies via imitation learning using demonstrations from a centralised Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) expert.
Achieved a first-of-its-kind demonstration of multi-UAV payload transport along agile trajectories in both simulation and real-world experiments.

Embedded SystemsPyTorchACADOSPythonMachine Learning

Graduate Student Researcher (Honours Programme)

Sep 2024 – May 2025 · 8 mos · Delft, South Holland, Netherlands · On-site

Acoustic Perception | Honours Programme Master (TU Delft)
Enabled autonomous vehicles to use latent traffic sound in the environment to identify and localise traffic and emergency vehicles
Integrated a new type of sensor, Microphone Array, with Autoware, an open-source autonomous vehicle software project
Developed the first multi-modal dataset combining synchronised LiDAR, camera, and microphone array data for AV research.
Built an automated labeling pipeline that leverages the CenterPoint ML model on LiDAR data to annotate microphone array audio, reducing manual effort and accelerating dataset scalability.

Computer VisionRobot Operating System (ROS)AutowarePythonPyTorchAutonomous Vehicles

Asml

Machine Learning Engineer

Jul 2024 – Oct 2024 · 3 mos · Veldhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands · On-site

Developing an algorithm to detect wafer deformation using machine learning

Amplus solar

Data Scientist

Jun 2020 – Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Working in the New Technology & Products cluster at Amplus Solar

Micron technology

UV Robot Design Competition

Jun 2020 – May 2021 · 11 mos

Led a team of 8 students from IIT Delhi to design an autonomous disinfection robot to combat the spread of the novel Corona virus. Our design was adjudged “the most innovative, feasible and scalable” design and we were awarded US$ 20,000.
After winning the competition, we used the prize money to start making our first prototype. Undeterred by the ongoing pandemic, I took up the construction of the prototype at my home.

Indian institute of technology, delhi

Continuous Contact based Skating Robot

Jul 2019 – Jun 2020 · 11 mos

Developed a novel motion platform utilizing statically stable gaits to facilitate quick motion across plain surfaces, roads and hard ice.
Developed a prototype as proof of concept. Research done was published as a series of two papers in ASME Journal of Mechanisms & Robotics, ASME Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems

University of michigan

Machine Learning Researcher

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Worked on Poisoning Attacks in ML, where adversarial data points are used to reduce the accuracy of a classifier
Studied effect size & position of poison have on attack success rate & its detection by existing defense mechanisms

Axlr8r formula racing, iit delhi

Engineer - Drive Control

Jun 2017 – May 2018 · 11 mos · Delhi, India

In charge of developing programs which control drive motor response based on driver input
Developed traction control and torque vectoring systems for the vehicle
Designed simulations for our vehicle in Matlab & Simulink