Janak Shah

2+ years of work experience

Jul 20263 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Dec 20251 moDec 2025

Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru)

- Created a C++ library to safely read/write to a CAN bus of Moteus servo controllers, with added protection from current spikes. Also performed electrical setup. - Wrote a controller in C++ to counter-act gravitational torque on robotic manipulators using Euler-Lagrange formulation. Integrated with ros2_control. - Extended mujoco_ros2_control to support the firm's software, enabling better physics simulations - Unified actuator libraries into a single API, with a Qt GUI

Sep 202511 mosJul 2026

Dec 20247 mosJun 2025

Remote

Built an AI-assisted dataset mask auto-annotation tool for click-based interactive segmentation using RITM, with long-term video-frame memory via XMem++. Served through a Django/ReactJS web app.

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Nov 20242 mosDec 2024

Performance analysis of quantized autoencoders on distributed systems. Professor: Dr. Debdoot Sheet

Apr 20241 yr 6 mosSep 2025

On-site

Awards: - Lescoe Grand Award (1500 USD) for 3rd position in IGVC AutoNav 2025, held at Oakland University, USA - Placed 3rd in Navigation Mission at ISDC 2025, held at BITS Pilani, Goa Campus Contributions: - Architected the software system (written using C++, Python, ROS2) for a driverless ground vehicle with level 4 autonomy, capable of autonomously following or changing lanes, turning at intersections and stopping at stop signs or moving pedestrians - Wrote several algorithms for probabilistic mapping and local goal calculation in ground vehicles - Created a live terrain mapper for aerial drones, stitching incoming RGB & depth image data to map the area covered