ECE Honors · UT Austin

Aditya
Pulipaka

I build at the seam of hardware and software — embedded systems, robotics, controls, and computer vision. From flight-control software to a levitating maglev rig to award-winning sensor-fusion hacks.

Currently: Embedded SWE Intern @  Qualcomm · Lev Subteam Lead @ Guadaloop
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Aditya Pulipaka ⤢ Closer look
01 — About

I'm an ECE Honors undergraduate at UT Austin who likes problems that don't fit neatly into "hardware" or "software." I've shipped flight-control, maintenance, and testing software at Bell Flight, written OS-level drivers at Qualcomm, built a LiDAR SLAM localization stack with the UT Dallas NOVA team, and architected prototyping, testing, and control solutions at Texas Guadaloop.

My happy place is closing the loop — sensors in, control out — whether that's a maglev yoke holding a gap height, a robot localizing in a crowded atrium, or an mmWave radar finding a person through a wall. I care about systems that are fast, robust, and honest about their limits.

Based in
Austin, Texas
Focus
Embedded · Robotics · Controls
Education
BS ECE Honors, UT Austin '28
Languages
English · Telugu · Spanish
02 — Selected Work

Things I've
built

A mix of research, internships, and hackathon wins. Case-study pages are in progress — the Guadaloop rig already has a live 3D walkthrough.

Live 3D ↗Scroll-driven WebGL viewer

Guadaloop Levitation Test Rig

Live 3D

An electromagnetic maglev test rig I lead development on — yoke, coils, gap-height sensors, and slide rails. Built the control stack from hand-tuned PID up toward a reinforcement-learning pipeline for the HEMS system. Explore the assembly in an Apple-style scroll-driven 3D walkthrough.

ControlsEmbeddedCAD / WebGLReinforcement Learning
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RescueVision

🏆 1st · StarkHacks

An mmWave + UWB system that locates victims through walls and renders them in a first responder's own AR frame. Won Analog Devices' Sensor Fusion track at Purdue's StarkHacks.

mmWave RadarSensor FusionEmbedded
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SmartPT

🏆 1st · Nexhacks

A PT app fusing camera 3D pose with an optional ESP32 IMU via an EKF for real-time form feedback. Won the Healthcare track at CMU's Nexhacks; live on TestFlight.

FlutterEKFSensor Fusion
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LiDAR SLAM & Localization

A LiDAR SLAM + map-based localization pipeline for UT Dallas NOVA's autonomous vehicle, built on KISS-ICP / Open3D. Fused ICP with feature matching for sub-5 cm accuracy in CARLA.

ROS2C++ / PyBindSLAM
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TweinStein

🏆 1st · ECE445M Final Race

An autonomous racer on a custom RTOS — PD wall-following, an RL residual, and a heuristic overtaking state machine. Won the ECE445M final race.

RTOSRoboticsControls
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BlindMaster

Full-stack IoT smart blinds — ESP32-C6 firmware, an Express + Socket.IO backend, and a Flutter app, with BLE-only provisioning and end-to-end calibration. Solo.

ESP32-C6EmbeddedFull-stack
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Harmonium

Most Risky · TVG

A browser-based instrument simulator with hand tracking so you can see and hear yourself play before buying. "Most Risky Hack" at the TVG Vibeathon.

WebComputer VisionAudio
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03 — Experience

Where I've
worked

Embedded software, robotics research, and controls — across industry, university labs, and student engineering teams.

May 2026 — Present · San Diego, CA

Embedded Software Engineer Intern · Qualcomm

Windows on Snapdragon. Extending device drivers to handle multiple clients and building a testing framework for a laptop hinge sensor — driver/OS-level work.

Jan 2026 — Present · Austin, TX

Undergraduate Researcher · UT Austin AMRL

ROS system using the Spinnaker SDK to pull frames from networked FLIR Blackfly S cameras, fuse multiple views, and output global pose estimates for people and robots — toward a markerless multi-camera calibration pipeline.

Dec 2025 — Present · Austin, TX

EM Levitation Subteam Lead · Texas Guadaloop

Leading control-algorithm development and a reinforcement-learning pipeline for the HEMS levitation system.

Jun 2025 — Aug 2025 · Arlington, TX

Embedded SWE Intern, 525 Flight Control Systems · Bell Flight

Resolved 5+ software problem reports across FCS code and low-level tests; built a Python tool that migrated ~1000 high-level tests and comms databases between environments, saving an estimated 6–12 months of manual work.

May 2025 — Aug 2025 · Dallas, TX

Autonomous Driving SWE · UT Dallas NOVA

Built the LiDAR SLAM + map-based localization stack (Open3D / KISS-ICP), reaching sub-5 cm localization accuracy via combined ICP and feature matching.

Sep 2024 — May 2025 · Austin, TX

Software Team · Stampede — UT Austin RoboMaster

Monocular localization pipeline for the Sentry robot using OpenCV SolvePnP; tested odometry methods for tighter positioning.

2023 — Earlier

Earlier: Articulate Labs · UT Southwestern (Takahashi Lab) · Motorheads Robotics

Product-dev intern on the KneeStim rehab device; circadian-rhythm biochemistry research; and co-captain of a state-championship-debut FTC robotics team.

"Aditya is a pleasure to work with and has excellent engineering skills… he developed full software-lifecycle solutions for our flight control computer software, exhibited agile thinking, and took initiative to suggest and implement additional improvements."

— Steve Feenstra, Flight Controls Software Lead / Staff Software Engineer, Bell Flight
04 — Honors

Recognition

🏆 1st
Autonomous Car Race
ECE445M F-0001 race @ UT Austin · Apr 2026 →
🏆 1st
Analog Devices Sensor Fusion Track
StarkHacks @ Purdue · Apr 2026 →
🏆 1st
Healthcare Track
Nexhacks @ CMU · Jan 2026 →
4.00
GPA at UT Austin
ECE Honors · view coursework →
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Most Risky Hack
TVG Vibeathon · Oct 2025 →
🎓
Engineering Honors Scholarship
Virginia & Ernest Cockrell Jr. · UT Austin
Standardized Tests
1590/1600 · SAT
1520/1520 · PSAT
05 — Coursework

What I've
studied

ECE Honors coursework at UT Austin — embedded systems, computing, signals & circuits, and the math underneath. All A's (4.00).

Embedded & Systems
ECE319HIntro to Embedded Systems (Honors)
ECE445MEmbedded & Real-Time Systems Laboratory
ECE460NComputer Architecture
ECE306Introduction to Computing
Software & Computing
ECE312HSoftware Design & Implementation I (Honors)
COE379LSoftware Design for Responsible Intelligent Systems
CS309Quantum Computing I (FRI)
Signals, Circuits & Hardware
ECE302Intro to Electrical Engineering
ECE313HLinear Systems & Signals (Honors)
ECE411HCircuit Theory (Honors)
ECE316Digital Logic Design
ECE385JNeural Engineering
Mathematics
M427LMultivariable Calculus (Honors)
M427JDifferential Equations w/ Linear Algebra
M340LMatrices & Matrix Calculations
M325KDiscrete Mathematics
Communication & Innovation
ECE333TEngineering Communication
MAN327Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Foundational calculus, engineering physics, and university core requirements were cleared through AP and transfer credit (26 hours).

06 — Toolkit

Skills

Tap any skill to see the projects and courses where I put it to use.

Embedded & Low-level
Embedded C / C++ARM AssemblyDevice DriversGPIO · UART · USBBLEMemory & Power MgmtArduino
Robotics, Controls & Autonomy
ROSControl SystemsMotor ControlLiDAR · RadarSensor FusionKalman FilteringVisual Odometry
Software & Languages
C++PythonC#JavaVerilogMATLAB / SimulinkDockerFastAPI
Hardware, Vision & Sim
PCB DesignSolidWorks · Fusion 360Ansys / FEA3D PrintingComputer VisionMachine LearningSignal Processing
07 — Contact

Let's build
something

adipu@utexas.edu
Résumé ↗ LinkedIn ↗ GitHub ↗