HARDIK MEHTA A Google certified project management roboticist with 4+ years of

professional experience
Robotics Engineer and Project Manager - R&D
\faAt : [email protected] \faPhone : +91-7977215979 \faMapMarker : Bengaluru, India \faLinkedin : linkedin.com/in/hardikrdm

WORK EXPERIENCE SKILLS

Researcher and Project Manager – Project Management Tools: JIRA, Asana, MS Office,
MS Project, G-Suite, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS
Tata Consultancy Services Research
Excel
z May 2022 – Present * Bangalore, India
– Project Management and Soft Skills: Leadership,
India Mobile Congress (IMC), 2022 is Asia’s largest digital forum, innaugrated
Teamwork, Critical Analytical Thinking, Project
by Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Planning, Project Scheduling, Project Life Cycle
– IMC 2022 - Responsible for ideation, initiating, planning and Management, SDLC - Waterfall, Scrum and Agile
execution of Remote Robot Teleoperation over 5G at India Project Management.
Mobile Congress, 2022 where we demonstrated the Dual Arm
Platform to PM Narendra Modi and Union Ministers. – Domains: Robotics, Computer Vision, Deep
Learning, Embedded Systems
– Delegated the tasks to complete the platform with all safety
requirements and standards for the demonstrations. – Frameworks: ROS, ROS2, Mediapipe, PyTorch,
TensorFlow, MoveIt
– Managed and coordinated with various vendors, logistic team,
technical team for demonstrations throughout the event. – Libraries/API’s: OpenCV, PCL(Pointcloud
Processing), OpenVR
– Created and managed the budget and completed the project at
par with the budget. – Platforms: Linux, Gazebo, AWS, Solidworks,
Onshape
– Held several brainstorming sessions with the teams for making
the project a success. – Languages: Python, C, C++
– Coordinated with media teams to give interviews in esteemed
News Channel like Zee, TV9, and others.
CERTIFICATIONS
Google Project Management: Specialization
Developer - Robotics R&I (Systems Engineer) / (06/2022)
Tata Consultancy Services Research Completed the following certification courses to
z Oct 2020 – Present * Bangalore, India specialize in the Google Project Management :
– ANA X-PRIZE and Robo-Chemist - A telepresence and – Foundations of Project Management
teleoperation-based avatar robotics challenge. – Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project
– Developed a two-stage regression-based CNN to detect 3D – Project Planning: Putting It All Together
human pose from 2D images to detect the operator’s pose and – Project Execution: Running the Project
mimic them to the robotic arm on a mobile platform.
– Agile Project Management
– Performed robotic arm manipulation to mimic human action
– Capstone: Applying Project Management in
using IKSolver and VR-based setup using ROS as the
the Real World
framework.
– Successfully demonstrated the pipeline in a 5G environment Yale’s Introduction to Negotiation: A Strategic
using AWS in remote industrial areas. / Playbook for Becoming a Principled and
– Collaborated with specialized research teams, intra and Persuasive Negotiator
intercompany for the 5G demonstration with Airtel(Indian-ISP) -Ongoing
received press and media coverage.
University Of Michigan’s Successful
/ Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills
Developer -Robotics R&I(Asst. Systems Engineer)
-Ongoing
Tata Consultancy Services Research
z Oct 2018 – Oct 2020 * Bangalore, India
ACHIEVEMENTS
– MBZIRC-2020 -An autonomous structure building challenge
using mobile manipulators robots. Professional News Interview on ZeeBusiness
– Developed state-of-the-art robotic arm manipulation \ -Appeared on ZeeBusiness to talk about 5G
algorithms for the UR5e robotic arm mounted on an AMR using teleoperation Robotics at the India Mobile
ROS. Congress(IMC)2022.
– Implemented a robust and novel 6D pose estimation algorithms Semi-finalist in ANA Avatar X-Prize(TCS)(2021)
to locate, identify, pick and place the bricks using 2D & 3D Π-Semi-finalist in ANA X-Prize, a international
computer vision with data from depth cameras. robotics challenge for humanoid teleoperated
– Designed and 3D printed a suction-based and a EPM based robots.
robotic gripper to pick up the brick, using opensource software. 6th Rank globally in MBZIRC(TCS)(2020)
– Assisted the navigation team for sensor-fusion of IMU, Lidar,
Π-Secured 6th place in autonomous construction
GPS and tracking camera for SLAM. use-case for MBZIRC-2020 a international
– Collaborated with mobile platform and UAV team for robotics competition.
completion of the challenge.
HARDIK MEHTA A Google certified project management roboticist with 4+ years of
professional experience
Robotics Engineer and Project Manager - R&D
\faAt : [email protected] \faPhone : +91-7977215979 \faMapMarker : Bengaluru, India \faLinkedin : linkedin.com/in/hardikrdm

PROJECTS INTERESTS
Gaming Therapy for recuperation Project Management Leadership Motivaton
Tata Consultancy Services Collaboration Robotics Computer Vision
z Oct 2018 - April 2019 * Bangalore, India
Robot Perception Machine Learning Chess
Gamifying the physiotherapy exercises to help patients recover faster, making
the exercise exciting as well as challenging. Martial Arts Swimming Hiking Reading
– Designed and programmed a sensor-glove comprising of IMU,
EMG sensor and a HID enabled controller which detects the AWARDS AND HONORS
muscle trigger and hand motion. This effect is mimicked in a
game. A score is allotted to a patient making the recuperating Service and Commitment Award(TCS)2022
process competitive.
› -Awarded by Tata Consultancy Services for
– Collaborated with Virtual Reality team to make the therapy diligent work in the organization.
realistic. Champions of ILP(TCS)2019
› -Awarded by Tata Consultancy Services for
WhoDoor - Smart Doorbell exceptional performance in particular field
Tata Consultancy Services during their training program
z Oct 2018 - April 2019 * Bangalore, India On the Spot-Team(TCS)2019
› -Awarded by Tata Consultancy Services to team
A security project that helps deaf or blind person know if an unknown or
members for the highest contribution to the
known entity has arrived at the door.
project.
– A Raspberry-pi based project to detect known and unknown
entities. Used Python libraries of dlib and face recognition are
extensively used for recognition. EXTRA-CURRICULAR
– Collaborated with android development team for sending IEEE Brainwaves - Technical Head
notification to the phone ³ Arranged and presented numerous seminars
and events for students especially in the field
Robotic Prostheic Arm of robotics namely marine robotics and guided
Mumbai University robotics.
z Aug 2017 - May 2018 * Mumbai, India Fundraiser for Indian Development Foundation
Ñ Volunteered for 6 months of community
– A robotic arm for an amputee that uses an EMG sensor
service in IDF, an NGO providing basic health,
mounted on the arm of the amputee. This EMG signal which
education and empowerment to every citizen.
corresponds to muscle signals actuates the respective motors
hence actuating the finger. Robocon-2016
Æ Youngest member for the robocon-2016
– Designed and 3D printed a custom anthropomorphic gripper
mounted on a arm for the actuations from the EMG Signals. challenge in our team, was responsible for
designing the robot and pneumatic actuations
EDUCATION Black Belt In Shotokan Karate
/ Recieved 1st Dan Black Belt at the age of 15yrs.
B.E. in Electronics Engineering 10th Degree in Mental Maths(UCMAS)
Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College Of Engineering-Mumbai University
‡ Graduated ten terms in mental arithmetic and
z Aug 2014 - May 2018 * Mumbai, India
abacus course.

– Designed and programmed numerous robots for competitions LANGUAGES

like Robocon, Robowars and for curriculum based projects.
English 5
PUBLICATIONS

A Rai, U., Mehta, H., Vakharia, V., Choudhary, A., Parmar, A., Hindi 5
Lima, R., Das, K. (2022). An efficient method for accurate
pose estimation and error correction of cuboidal objects,
Gujarati 5
Accepted: MOMA workshop International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS 2022.
A Lima, R., Rai, U., Vakharia, V., Mehta, H., Vatsal, V., Das, Marathi 3.5
K.(2022). Model-mediated delay compensation with goal
prediction for robot teleoperation over internet, Submitted:
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
ICRA 2022.