ahmad ali
what i’ve been building:
  • capstone project that won 🏆 1st place 🎉 at the grand expo
  • 🚀 taught a from-scratch DQN landing agent to fly and land a spaceship in PyTorch
  • 🔎 created Foresight — helps teams keep machines healthy: watches key signals, spots odd behavior, and gives a heads-up on likely failures
  • developed an Energy Monitor — a clear way to see your home’s power in real time, follow daily patterns, and get nudges when something’s using more than it should
previously, Engineering Internships @:

projects

Autonomous PCB Soldering Robot
Autonomous PCB Soldering Robot
CoreXY robot that solders THT joints end-to-end; Raspberry Pi vision + MobileNetV2 QA/QC.
EmbeddedRoboticsComputer VisionML/AIPCBMechanics/CAD
ApolloDQN
ApolloDQN
From-scratch DQN—spaceship learns to land (PyTorch).
Reinforcement LearningPyTorchPythonDeep NetworksAgent Training
Foresight
Foresight
Trends KPI’s, spots anomalies, and estimates reliability from sensor and event data. Asset health monitoring for any uptime-critical operation.
PythonFlaskSensor MonitoringAnomaly DetectionReliabilityStatistical Forecasting
ClearPath-Radar
ClearPath-Radar
Clutter-free radar processing pipeline for moving targets (range/Doppler/MTI).
Signal ProcessingRadarDSPMTI
Angle-Based-Motion-Tracking
Angle-Based-Motion-Tracking
Motion estimation from angle-of-arrival using nonlinear methods.
TrackingAOAMotion EstimationMATLAB
morpho-plate
morpho-plate
Lightweight ALPR/ANPR pipeline for roadway footage (real-time inclined).
Computer VisionOCRPythonImage Processing
Upright-Pendulum
Upright-Pendulum
Stabilizes an inverted pendulum via state-feedback and a full-state observer.
Control SystemsObserverSimulinkState-FeedbackStabilization
MappingLocalization-AV
MappingLocalization-AV
2-D occupancy grid mapper for an autonomous vehicle using LiDAR scans and wheel/IMU odometry.
SLAMLiDARROSAutonomous VehiclesJetson
Home-EnergyMonitor
Home-EnergyMonitor
Real-time home energy data tracker with MQTT → Flask API → dashboards.
IoTPythonMQTTFlaskEnergy
MuscleMate
MuscleMate
Muscle-powered robotic arm concept for surgical sterilization; EMG + signal processing.
RoboticsEMGSignal ProcessingPython
F-Domain-Sensing
F-Domain-Sensing
DFT exploration + FMCW radar FFT on TI TMS320.
DSPDFT/FFTFMCW RadarTMS320MATLAB
Rotational-3D-LiDAR
Rotational-3D-LiDAR
Microcontroller-driven LiDAR rig generating 3D point clouds.
EmbeddedCMSP432LiDARPoint Cloud
optimal-clusters
optimal-clusters
Adaptive Color Quantization via optimal clustering for image compression.
PythonClusteringImage Compression
PixelWeave
PixelWeave
Reconstructs full-color images from a sensor mosaic (MATLAB).
MATLABAlgorithmsBayesian OptimizationDemosaicing