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Experience

Jobs, research and the teams I've led.

AI/Software Engineer, Founding Team

Drift

Claude Code for robots · backed by Antler

Nov 2025 — Present
  • Built core infrastructure for the agent, which 1,000+ people use to build and debug robot simulations in ROS2, Gazebo, MuJoCo and Isaac Sim. #5 Product of the Day at launch.
  • Built the /robots catalog: 129 robots, each license-checked against MuJoCo Menagerie and partner repos.
  • Shipped photo-to-3D scene generation with World Labs.
  • Wrote the CLI test harness. It drives the tool through pexpect, has a vision model check Gazebo screenshots, and asks it real questions pulled from robotics forums.
  • Tracked a production Gazebo freeze to gz-transport's UDP multicast failing on Ubuntu 24.04 with an RTX 5070, and fixed it.
  • Also built regression CI and the internal EPS dashboard, and worked on Drift Desktop (Tauri, React).
Python
ROS2
C++
Docker
Linux
TypeScript

Research Intern

Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

Advised by Prof. Min Xu and Dr. Xiaolong Wu

Jul 2025 — Present
  • First author on three papers about controlling robot joints when the motor can't produce the torque the controller asks for.
  • One tunes PID gains with that torque limit built in. Under review at IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
  • Another, SCIG++, is a safety filter that keeps a joint in its safe range even when its commands are tampered with. Under review at IEEE IROS, demonstrated on a Franka Emika Panda arm.
  • The third bounds how much control a command can carry and still pass the attack detector on torque-limited joints. IEEE ICRA 2027.
  • Also built multimodal SLAM and path-planning experiments with a PID controller underneath.
Python
NumPy
MATLAB
ROS2
C++

Co-Founder & CEO

Twinly

Desktop AI agent · Z Fellows, Sept 2026 cohort

Dec 2025 — Present
  • Twinly learns how you write, talk and use your computer, then does the work: email, calendar, files, the browser, and phone calls in your own voice.
  • Built the Identity Runtime. It drives apps through macOS accessibility APIs, the browser DOM and app state, and only clicks on pixels when there's nothing structured to use.
  • macOS, Windows and iOS apps with 1,000+ active users, some of them paying. SwiftUI, Electron, Supabase and Stripe.
  • A two-person company, picked for Z Fellows' 10-builder cohort.
Swift
TypeScript
Python
PostgreSQL

Quantitative Research Analyst

AlgoGators Investment Fund

Student-run fund · about $500K AUM

Sep 2026 — Present
  • One of two first-years picked for the quant research team. Build signals and backtest strategies.
  • Traded a crack spread at a 64% win rate across live trades, adjusting as hurricane forecasts moved during an active storm.
Python
NumPy

Researcher, NeuroSpine Team

Dream Team Engineering

UF research team · with the UF Department of Neurosurgery

Sep 2026 — Present
  • Helping spine surgeons judge vertebral bone quality before surgery, where DEXA cutoffs leave a gray area.
  • Building the Python pipeline that segments vertebrae in CT and MRI (nnU-Net, TotalSegmentator, MONAI, SimpleITK) and computes Hounsfield-unit and VBQ scores.
Python
NumPy

AI Robotics Engineer Intern

EV Bots, Inc.

Robots that charge electric vehicle fleets

Apr 2025 — Feb 2026
  • Built the company's first autonomous EV-charging robot that worked end to end: mechanical design, electronics, perception and control, through to plugging into the car.
  • Designed the CAD for a drone charging dock meant for swarm delivery fleets.
  • The work went into several provisional patents.
Python
C++
ROS2
Arduino
OpenCV

Engineering Intern

PteroLabs

UAV simulation and autonomy

Jul 2025 — Jan 2026
  • Built a drone simulator in Unreal Engine 5 that runs PX4, ArduPilot and Betaflight in the loop, with 6-DOF flight dynamics, an FPV view, ML mission planning and object detection.
  • Benchmarked its performance. The University of Pennsylvania now uses it for research.
Unreal Engine
C++
Python
PyTorch
OpenCV

Software Development Intern

iPipeline

Insurance software

Jun 2025 — Aug 2025
  • Wrote automated test frameworks and AI agents for validation and regression testing.
  • Built developer tooling that engineering teams across the company adopted.
Python
JavaScript
Docker
Git

Chief Technology Officer

Youth Publications & Socioeconomic Forum

Youth NGO affiliated with UN MGCY

Mar 2025 — Apr 2026
  • Led AI literacy programs in 15+ countries for a 500+ member organization, from the curriculum to the platform.
  • Presented the work at UN events including HLPF and UNGA.
React
Next.js
TypeScript
Firebase

Founder & Club President

American Rocketry Challenge

High school rocketry club

Jul 2023 — Jun 2026
  • Started the club and grew it past 60 members.
  • Led payload CAD, propulsion analysis in MATLAB, systems integration and launches.
Python
MATLAB

National Competitor

Technology Student Association

National finalist in 2 events

May 2024 — Jun 2025
  • Competed in 8 events at nationals and captained 6 of the teams.
  • The builds ranged from a carbon-credit web app on a blockchain to an FPV drone and a Meta Quest escape room.
React
Unity
C#
Python
C++

Team Captain, Lead Programmer & Driver

VEX Robotics

3x World Championship competitor

2019 — Feb 2025
  • Seven seasons on the team.
  • Wrote the autonomous routines in C++ and Python, tuned the PID loops, and did the CAD.
C++
Python
Arduino

Center Assistant

Kumon North America, Inc.

Tutoring center

May 2022 — Dec 2022
  • Tutored students aged 4 to 16 in math and English.
  • Graded their work and kept their records.

Publications

Three first-author papers on robot joints that hit their motor's torque limit, and a free textbook.

  1. [1]2026

    Constraint-Aware Discrete-Time PID Gain Optimization for Robotic Joint Control Under Actuator Saturation

    Ojasva Mishra (first author), with Prof. Min Xu and Dr. Xiaolong Wu

    IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)Under review · arXiv preprint

    Tunes discrete-time PID gains with the actuator's saturation limit built in as a constraint from the start.

    Read on arXiv
  2. [2]2026

    SCIG++: Risk-Limiting Conformal Safety Filtering for Attack-Resilient Robotic Joint Control Under Saturation

    Ojasva Mishra (first author), with Prof. Min Xu and Dr. Xiaolong Wu

    IEEE IROS 2026IEEE IROSUnder review

    Wraps the controller in a conformal safety filter with an explicit risk bound, so a joint stays inside its safe set even when the commands reaching it have been adversarially manipulated. Demonstrated on a Franka Emika Panda arm.

    Watch the video supplement
  3. [3]2027

    Bounding Detector-Accepted Feedback Authority in Torque-Limited Robot Control

    Ojasva Mishra (first author), with Prof. Min Xu and Dr. Xiaolong Wu

    IEEE ICRAICRA 2027

    Bounds how much control authority a command can carry and still be accepted by the attack detector, when the robot's joints are torque-limited.

  4. [4]2025

    Introduction to Robotics and Programming

    Ojasva Mishra

    SSRNPublished · open access

    A 120-page open-access robotics and programming textbook, written for students who can't get the material any other way. Indexed on SSRN.

    Read on SSRN

Projects

Products, hackathon builds and research.

Eight events · eight builds

↓ 5 documentation portfolios, open below

  • Aerospace · hardware

    Drone Challenge

    A Betaflight FPV drone built and tuned from scratch, with a custom CAD frame and wiring loom.

    ArduinoC++
    View my portfolio

  • Robotics

    Robotics

    A robot that picks up and moves objects, driven and autonomous. The chassis, manipulator and routine were all built at the event.

    C++Arduino
    Built on-site, timed

  • XR · game engine

    VR Visualization

    A playable escape room in Unity 6 for the Meta Quest, with hand-tracked puzzles.

    UnityC#
    View my portfolio

  • Web · blockchain

    Software Development

    SAFMS, an AI/IoT web app that models agroforestry carbon credits from land use and live environmental sensors, and issues the credits on-chain.

    ReactJavaScript
    Open the live app

  • Environmental

    Engineering Design

    Zeolite domes that capture nitrogen to cut agricultural emissions, from materials and geometry to capture modelling.

    Python
    View my portfolio

  • Games · art pipeline

    Video Game Design

    A tower defense game in Unity and C#, with custom Blender models and hand-drawn pixel art.

    UnityBlender
    View my portfolio

  • Controls

    Systems Control

    Autonomous control systems written on-site in Python and C++ against a clock, with no reference material.

    PythonC++
    Built on-site, timed

  • Systems design

    Board Game Design

    An original board game, designed and playtested end to end.

    Built on-site, timed

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