Robot perception
LiDAR-camera fusion, object detection, 3D reconstruction, and scene understanding.
YOLONeRFSensor fusion
Robotics & AI Engineer ITMO University
Building machines that sense, model, and act.
I am an Electrical Engineer and MSc researcher focused on robot perception, autonomous navigation, and intelligent control for physical environments.
Researching autonomy
in the physical world
in the physical world
01 / Research focus
From classical systems
to intelligent autonomy.
My work brings together a foundation in control systems and power engineering with modern robotics and machine learning. I design reproducible pipelines that connect sensing, estimation, planning, and actuation.
Currently completing an MSc in Robotics & Artificial Intelligence at ITMO University with a Red Diploma, I am interested in robust autonomy that can move from simulation into real-world deployment.
Autonomous navigation
Multi-layer planning and Bayesian estimation for constrained, dynamic environments.
A*DWAUKF
Intelligent control
Model-based control and systems thinking grounded in electrical engineering.
MPCPIDPower systems
02 / Experience
Engineering in practice.
A path across renewable energy, industrial systems, and research-driven robotics.
Feb — Sep 2024
Operations Management Engineer
Sapphire Renewables · Karachi, Pakistan
Assessed wind turbine data for predictive maintenance, supervised maintenance planning, prepared plant SOPs and breakdown reports, and analyzed performance to improve energy output.
Dec 2023 — Feb 2024
Engineering Trainee R&D
Winston Marriot Ltd. · United Kingdom
Sep — Oct 2022
Maintenance Engineering Intern
South Asia Pakistan Terminals (SAPT) · Karachi, Pakistan
Supported electrical maintenance and port operations, including preventive and predictive maintenance for operational equipment.
Feb — Mar 2022
Maintenance Intern
Unicol Limited · Mirpur Khas, Pakistan
Worked with PLC-based control logic, SCADA monitoring, process visualization, and electrical substations in sugar plant operations.
03 / Selected work
Research with a systems view.
Projects spanning perception, navigation, 3D vision, and renewable energy.
01MSc thesis · 2025—26
Real-Time 3D Perception for Autonomous Ground Vehicles
A training-free pipeline combining YOLOv8m-seg, calibrated LiDAR projection, adaptive mask erosion, DBSCAN clustering, and PCA-based 3D bounding boxes for KITTI scenes.
50.51% / 38.63%Car / pedestrian IoU on KITTI~11 FPSwith 1,874 MiB GPU memory
PythonPyTorchOpen3DYOLOv8
02Navigation · 2025
Tri-Nav
A hybrid framework for UGV navigation in MuJoCo, integrating A* global planning, Dynamic Window Approach local avoidance, and MPC control.
MuJoCoA*DWAMPC
View repository ↗033D vision · 2025
Depth-Supervised NeRF
Comparative research on hard geometric constraints, soft depth loss, and hybrid depth integration for more stable 3D scene reconstruction.
NeRFPyTorch3D vision
View repository ↗04Power systems · 2023
Hybrid PV System Design
A Simulink/MATLAB study of Constant Power Load instability using a single-phase hybrid inverter, PLL, MPPT, and precise circuit modelling.
MATLABSimulinkMPPT
Project details ↗04 / Education
Grounded in engineering.
Oriented toward the future.
2024—26
MSc Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
ITMO University · Saint Petersburg, Russia
CGPA 4.85 / 5 · Red Diploma2019—23
BE Electrical Engineering
NED University of Engineering and Technology · Karachi, Pakistan
CGPA 3.4 / 405 / Publications
Research in the record.
Two current research outputs: one published first-author article and one paper under review.
Published · 2026
TriLayerNav: A Tri-Layer Navigation System for Unmanned Ground Vehicles Integrating A*, DWA and Model Predictive Control
Giroskopiya i Navigatsiya (Scientific and Technical Journal of IT, Mechanics and Optics)
Under review · 2026
Improving NeRF Training Quality Using Depth Data: A Comparative Study of Depth-Integration Strategies for 3D Scene Reconstruction
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
Code on GitHub ↗06 / Recognition
Beyond the lab.
2nd placeObninskTech Winter School · Rosatom · 2025
HackAtom winnerNukeNet · ObninskTech Summer School · 2025
Global participantWorld Atomic Week · ROSATOM · 35+ countries, 1,200+ participants
Technical toolkit
PythonC++CROSSLAMMATLABETAPGazeboAutoCADSignal processing07 / Contact
Let’s build something
that moves.
Open to research collaborations, PhD opportunities, and engineering conversations in robotics, autonomy, and intelligent systems.
ayansaleem827@gmail.com ↗