ANSH JAIN
Protein Prediction Drone Docking IIT Madras · Paid Adj. Oxford Schools · IA TEDxPESU · Clubhead IEEE RAS · 100+ Members MINERVA · Media sEMG · Prosthetics Swarm Robotics Teaching · 1000s Flood Risk ML Arduino · REN-CONSOLE NALSAR · 33 Rooms Equity Framework B.Tech ECE · CS Minor I love doing everything. Here's some of it.
Currently: Capstone, Autonomous Aerial Docking.
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12°58'N 77°35'E · BENGALURU
About · Identity
02 · About

One half of my brain
enrolls me into things.
The other half executes.

I'm a third-year ECE student at PES University with a CS minor. I run three of the university's biggest clubs at the same time. I get paid to judge national-level debates. I'm building aerial drones, protein fitness predictors, swarm robots, and gesture-controlled prosthetics. I teach a course that reaches every sophomore.

I keep signing up for things before I know how to do them. It's worked out so far.

One half of my brain enrolls me into things. The other half has to execute the responsibilities.
3
Simultaneous
Clubhead Roles
4
Paid Adjudication
Engagements
6+
Active Research
& Build Projects
33
Rooms at India's largest debate (NALSAR)
200+
TEDx Attendees
Per Event
100+
IEEE RAS Members
Led
Domains · All of them
03 · Domains

Everything
at once.

Everything I'm working on right now, across every domain.

Research 01 Standout
Protein Fitness Prediction
FitPredict-ML · ESM-2 650M · Novel diagnostic on positional memorization. Publication-quality.
Capstone 02 Team Lead
Autonomous Aerial Docking
Parallel drone docking · Isaac Sim + PX4 · 95% sim success rate target · Intel RealSense
ML 03 Course Project
GestureIQ
sEMG gesture classification · 92.6% accuracy · Prosthetic control
Adjudication 04 Paid IA
Debate Adjudicator
IIT Madras · Oxford Schools · NLUO · NLSIU · NALSAR (33 rooms)
Events 05 Clubhead
TEDxPESU
Clubhead · 2 events produced · 200+ attendees · Speakers from IISc, L&T, Forbes India
Robotics 06 Intern
Swarm Robotics
IEEE RAS internship · ROS 2 + Gazebo · Multi-bot waste collection
Leadership 07 Clubhead
IEEE RAS Secretary
100+ members · ReRO Hackathon · International reach · RoboFest 4.0 co-head
Media 08 Clubhead
MINERVA Media Club
Content strategy · Multimedia production · Entire JMC dept. works with the club
Teaching 09 TA
Teaching Assistant
Entrepreneurship course · 2nd year university-wide · Thousands of students · Set final exam
Civic Tech 10
Bengaluru Flood Risk Model
Geospatial ML + weather prediction · Identifies flood risk zones by location · Hackathon project
Embedded 11
REN-CONSOLE
Arduino R4 · Pong + Snake · Gesture-controlled via ultrasonic sensors · WiFi scoreboard server
Equity 12
Equity Framework
Drafted PES Debate Society equity framework from global circuit research · Panel member since 2025
04 · Projects

What I've built.

01
FitPredict-ML
Protein Fitness Predictor
⭐ Lead
02
Aerial Docking
Drone Payload Transfer
⭐ Lead
03
GestureIQ
sEMG Classification
04
Flood Risk Model
Bengaluru Geospatial ML
05
REN-CONSOLE
Arduino Gesture Games
06
Swarm Robotics
ROS 2 Internship
Deep Learning · Computational Biology
FitPredict-ML: Protein Fitness Predictor

A diagnostic study of positional memorization in supervised protein fitness predictors, with a validated remedy replicated across two unrelated proteins. Built with PyTorch, HuggingFace's ESM-2 650M foundation model, and BioPython.

Key finding: Mean-pool ESM-2 embeddings cause supervised models to memorize position-fitness mappings from training labels. Per-residue embedding at the mutation site eliminates this without sacrificing accuracy. Switching to per-residue embedding jumps Spearman ρ from 0.038 to 0.271 on MK01_HUMAN.
0.758 Spearman ρ (BLAT)
0.271 ↑ from 0.038 Spearman ρ (MK01)
11.6K Protein variants tested
PyTorch ESM-2 650M ESM-1v HuggingFace BioPython DSSP Scikit-learn SciPy
Robotics · Autonomous Systems
Autonomous Parallel Docking for In-Air Payload Exchange Between Multirotor Drones

B.Tech Capstone. Team Lead. Designing and simulating a system where two drones dock mid-air to transfer payloads. Parallel geometry is used rather than vertical to avoid the 20% failure rate from rotor downwash interference.

Current status (May 2026): Literature review complete, simulation environment set up in Isaac Sim and Pegasus. Early stage. Full docking pipeline still being built.
95%Target sim success rate
<10cmPositioning error target
<5°Attitude deviation target
NVIDIA Isaac Sim Pegasus Sim PX4-SIL ROS 2 MAVROS RealSense D435i Jetson TX2 ArduPilot
Machine Learning · Biomedical Signal Processing
GestureIQ. sEMG Hand Gesture Classification

A full ML pipeline for classifying hand gestures from surface EMG signals, targeting prosthetic limb control. Built on NinaPro DB2 with 10 subjects, 6 gesture classes, 58,006 windows of 12-channel 2000Hz sEMG.

Key insight: LinearSVC achieves macro-F1 ≈ 0.35. RBF kernel jumps to 0.73. EMG gesture classification is fundamentally non-linearly separable. The kernel trick is what makes SVM work here.
92.6%KNN test accuracy
0.760Macro-F1 (KNN)
Scikit-learn KNN SVM-RBF PCA + LDA NumPy SciPy Pandas
Civic Tech · Geospatial ML
Bengaluru Flood Risk Prediction Model

A proof-of-concept civic-tech system built at Synapse Hackathon. A weather ML predictor for Bengaluru is overlaid with geospatial lakebed dataset to identify flood-risk zones. Users input their location and receive a real-time flood risk evaluation during heavy rainfall.

Design thinking: Built at the intersection of urban planning, data science, and public infrastructure. exactly the kind of cross-domain problem that needs generalists.
Scikit-learn Geospatial ML Weather Prediction Python
Embedded Systems · HCI
REN-CONSOLE. Gesture-Controlled Arduino Games

Two classic games (Pong + Snake) on a single Arduino UNO R4 hardware setup, controlled entirely by hand gestures via ultrasonic sensors. The Arduino itself hosts a live HTML scoreboard. the microcontroller IS the web server.

The twist: No keyboard, no joystick. Wave your hand left/right to steer Snake. Each HC-SR04 sensor controls a Pong paddle by proximity. Potentiometer for difficulty. Buzzer for audio. Live scoreboard via WiFi.
Arduino C++ WiFiS3 Arduino UNO R4 HC-SR04 LED Matrix
Robotics · Internship
Swarm Robotics for Waste Collection

Summer internship at IEEE RAS, Bengaluru. Built a multi-robot simulation in ROS 2 and Gazebo featuring a master bot with magnetic follower bins, coordinating multiple TurtleBot3s via LiDAR navigation for autonomous waste collection.

Early exposure: First hands-on with multi-robot coordination, ROS 2 architecture, and simulation environments that later fed directly into the Capstone drone project.
ROS 2 Gazebo TurtleBot3 LiDAR Isaac Sim Python
Experience · Active
05 · Experience

What I've worked on.

Professional experience I built during a B.Tech. Not after it.

Jan 2026
Present
CIE · PES University
Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant, EIE-2

EIE-2 is a mandatory entrepreneurship course covering every second-year student at PES University. All departments, all branches, thousands of students.

  • CIE Ignite (Phase 2): managed 105 competing teams (509 students) single-handedly, individual follow-ups, scheduling, mentor assignments, finalist coordination, all communications end-to-end.
  • Rebuilt course materials from scratch: redesigned lecture slides, developed exam question banks, facilitated innovation workshops, mentored early-stage teams.
  • Set and audited the final exam questions against quality frameworks before submission.
2024
Present
BP Circuit · National & Intl.
Paid · Professional
Professional Debate Adjudicator

Paid Independent Adjudicator on the national and international British Parliamentary debate circuit. Being a paid IA as an undergraduate is uncommon. Four paid engagements to date.

  • Oxford Schools India Qualifiers 2026. Invited IA (paid), 30 rooms
  • IIT Madras Parliamentary Debate 2026. Invited IA (paid), NF Panel, 2 rounds chaired
  • NLUO Parliamentary Debate 2026. Broke as Invited IA (paid)
  • NLSIU 2025–26. Paid judge, internal competitive debate
Jun. Jul 2024
IEEE RAS · Bengaluru
Summer Intern
Swarm Robotics Intern

Built a multi-robot simulation for autonomous waste collection. First real exposure to ROS 2 and multi-robot coordination, which fed directly into the Capstone.

  • Engineered a leader-follower algorithm with a master bot and TurtleBot3 fleet using LiDAR navigation in ROS 2
  • Deployed and validated simulation environments in Gazebo and NVIDIA Isaac Sim
Jun. Jul 2024
RAPID Research Centre · PESU
Summer Intern
IoT Research Intern
  • Built an ESP32 + ThingSpeak IoT pipeline for real-time thermal data collection and visualization
  • Explored predictive modeling of room thermal dynamics for HVAC energy efficiency
Debate · British Parliamentary
06 · Debate

The engineer who
stands up and argues.

I compete in British Parliamentary debate and get paid to adjudicate at IIT Madras, Oxford Schools India, NLUO, and NLSIU. Still in my third year.

Engineer by training. Debater by practice.

4
Paid IA
engagements
33
Rooms. India's largest (NALSAR)
Novice finalist
placements
NSF
NALSAR National
Semi-Final panel

Adjudication Record

Tournament Year Result
Oxford Schools India Quals 2026 Invited IA (paid)
IIT Madras PD 2026 Invited IA (paid)
NLUO PD 2026 Broke as IA (paid)
NLSIU (Internal) 2025–26 Paid Judge
Bhaavarth 2.0 Pre-WUDC 2025 Open SF Panel
NALSAR IVDC 2025 National SF Panel
NUALS NPD 2025 National Final Panel
PESDT 2024 National Final Panel

Speaker Record (Competitive)

Tournament Year Result
Bengaluru Pre-UADC 2026 3rd Best Novice Speaker
SBSPD 2024 Novice Finals · Runner Up · 92 pts
RCL 2024 Novice Finals · 2nd Best Novice
NUALS NPD 2024 Novice Finals · Top Breaking
Three Clubs. One Person.
07 · Leadership

Three clubs.
Same time.
Same person.

While doing a B.Tech. While competing nationally in debate. While building 6+ technical projects.

IEEE Robotics & Automation Society
Secretary / Clubhead

Leading PES University's IEEE RAS chapter across all technical and non-technical verticals. Previously co-headed RoboFest 4.0 and built the ReRO Remote Robotics Hackathon. where participants upload code to physical robots and watch them run live via video feed. International participants.

100+ members  ·  Jan 2026–Present
RoboFest 4.0 · ReRO Hackathon · Inter-university representation
TEDxPESU
Clubhead

Overall strategy, speaker curation, sponsorship, operations. Ran production for "Mosaics of Modernity" and "Tessellations of Time". two consecutive events. Speakers from IISc, L&T, Forbes India, Trilegal, and more. 200+ attendees per event.

30+ core team  ·  Jan 2026–Present
2 events produced · Production, curation, design, marketing
MINERVA. The Media Club
Clubhead

Content strategy, multimedia production, branding. The entire PES JMC (Journalism & Mass Communication) department works under and with MINERVA. Hosted Tri-Media-Thon. an overnight brand-crisis hackathon with Adobe as sponsor and a CEO judge who gave internships on the spot.

Full JMC dept.  ·  Jan 2026–Present
Tri-Media-Thon · Adobe sponsorship · Podcast + docs incoming
3
Clubs Led Simultaneously
105
CIE Innovation Teams Managed Solo
1000s
Students in TA Course Reach
08 · Personal

Beyond
work.

When I'm not running clubs or judging debates, I'm running actual distances, reading actual books, and trying to learn to crochet (yes, really). The same brain that debugs ROS 2 pipelines also spends weekends on cooking experiments.

Starting consistent rock climbing. Just picked up crochet. Guitar is next. The pattern of starting things before finishing old ones is not a bug.

On reading

"Give me a book over most things. Fiction, non-fiction, whatever. The goal is always the same: understand how someone else's world works from the inside."

Rock Climbing
Starting consistent training · problem-solving on vertical surfaces
Running
Consistent long distance · the only time the brain fully stops
Reading
Books · everything · fiction + non-fiction both
Video Games
All genres · all sports · anything that involves a controller
Crochet
Currently learning · fibre arts as a form of patience training
Cooking
Active pursuit · experimental · the kitchen as a lab
Currently learning / starting
  • Guitar. on the list, soon
  • Rock climbing. building a consistent training schedule
  • Crochet. in progress, no finished piece yet
  • Cooking. ongoing, levelling up gradually
Skills · From actual use
09 · Skills

What I've
actually used.

Languages
Python 3 C / C++ Arduino C++ SQL Verilog VHDL
ML / Deep Learning
PyTorch HuggingFace ESM-2 650M Scikit-learn SciPy Pandas NumPy BioPython DSSP
Robotics & Simulation
ROS 2 NVIDIA Isaac Sim Pegasus Sim PX4-SIL Gazebo MAVROS ArduPilot TurtleBot3
Hardware & Embedded
ESP32 Arduino UNO R4 HC-SR04 RealSense D435i Jetson TX2 LiDAR
EDA & CAD
MATLAB/Simulink SolidWorks Fusion 360 Altium Designer KiCAD Xilinx Cadence
Dev & Web
Git / GitHub Linux / CLI Django Wireshark GNS3 ThingSpeak
Education · Bengaluru, India
10 · Education

The full picture.

2023. 2027 (Expected)
PES University
B.Tech. ECE + CS Minor · CGPA 7.55

Electronics & Communication Engineering with Computer Science minor. Merit scholarship (CGPA above 7.75) in Semesters 1, 3, and 5. Current high: Sem 5 at 8.54. Sem 6 results pending.

Sem 1-5 · Sem 5 = 8.54
2023. 2024
IIT Madras
Foundational Certificate · Programming & Data Science

Online degree program. Certificate in Programming and Data Science. Strong in English and Python foundations.

Pre-2023
Ryan International School
Class 10: 98% · Class 12: 85.5% · CBSE

Mathematics 100/100. Computer Applications 100/100. Gold Medal, Brain-O-Brain Nationals (Abacus).

In context

Class 10

98% overall. Mathematics 100/100. Computer Applications 100/100. The mathematical ability is not the constraint. never was.

GPA Trajectory

7.55 across 5 semesters. Sem 5 hit 8.54, the highest so far. Sem 6 results pending.

Brain-O-Brain Nationals

Gold Medal, Brain-O-Brain Nationals (abacus). Maths 100/100 in Class 10.

11 · Contact

If something here
sparked a thought,

Internships, research, collaborations, interesting problems. I'm a third-year engineering student who runs three clubs, judges debates nationally, and builds things across robotics, ML, and embedded systems. I'm still figuring out what to go deep on. All options are open.

Reach out. The worst that happens is a good conversation.

Pro tip: try typing 'hire me' while you're here. ✨

12°58'N 77°35'E · Bengaluru · 2026