ahmad ali
what i’ve been building:
  • capstone project that won 🏆 1st place 🎉 at the grand expo
  • 🚗 Morpho-Plate — detects license plates in video footage and flags watch-list hits live
  • 🧠 Neural Autopilot: learns to land — a from-scratch RL agent that teaches itself precision landings (PyTorch)
  • Wattboard — turns home power into a live scoreboard so you spot waste early and save before the bill spikes
  • 🤖 MissionControl-AMR — map, plan, and monitor a fleet in a browser-based “show-floor” demo
  • 📡 CAN-RTOS Sim — exercises timing and messaging on a crowded CAN network, proving reliability under load before hardware
  • 📈 C++ Telemetry Fuser — unifies sensors and logs into one clean timeline, with quick health signals so issues surface fast
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
morpho-plate
morpho-plate
Lightweight ALPR/ANPR pipeline for roadway footage (real-time inclined).
Computer VisionOCRPythonImage Processing
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
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