I build end-to-end systems: from training the model and designing the algorithm to making it fast, reliable and genuinely useful.
Engineer · Researcher · Builder
Arnab Datta.
Electrical Engineering undergraduate at IIT Kanpur, building intelligent systems at the intersection of machine learning, robotics, vision and science.
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01 · About
Curious by design.
I like problems that refuse to stay in one discipline—where models meet machines, scientific data becomes useful, and ambitious ideas have to survive contact with the real world.
Leading Team ERA
Heading a 19-member undergraduate robotics team and working on autonomous systems, 3D vision and predictive control.
02 · Competitions
Research with results.
Two international-scale challenges. Two very different scientific domains. The same obsession with making complex models perform under real constraints.
COMPETITION · 01
🥈 Inter IIT Tech 14.0
ISRO Geospatial
An intelligent multimodal chatbot for satellite imagery, enabling captioning, grounding and visual question answering across RGB, FCC and SAR images.
- Orchestrated Qwen3-VL, YOLO, SAM and RemoteCLIP through LLaMA 3.1.
- Outperformed SOTA on grounding and float queries with sub-10-second inference.
- Accepted for oral presentation at IEEE IGARSS 2026, Washington DC.
COMPETITION · 02
🥉 CAFA 6 · Kaggle
Protein Function Prediction
A high-performing pipeline for predicting Gene Ontology terms from amino-acid sequences, designed to improve sparse-label generalization.
- Generated protein embeddings using the 650M-parameter ESM2 model.
- Combined KNN retrieval with GCN-enforced Gene Ontology hierarchy constraints.
- Improved weighted F1 from 0.194 to 0.366; ranked 210 of 2,259 teams.
03 · Papers
Accepted research.
Two accepted papers spanning remote sensing, robotics and perception. ORCID iD: 0009-0000-6060-6248.
TRINETRA: Text-guided Remote-sensing INterpretation via Ensemble-based TRAnsformers
Accepted for oral presentation at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, connecting multimodal AI with satellite imagery understanding.
Visual Localization and Detection via Monocular Omni-Vision
Accepted at the 29th RoboCup International Symposium in Incheon, Republic of Korea, focused on cost-effective monocular perception for autonomous mobile robots.
04 · ProjectsBuilt to learn.
Built to learn.
Built to last.
From multilingual transformers and autonomous perception to Ethereum smart contracts and binary exploitation.
01 / NMT
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Machine Translation for India
English-to-Hindi/Bengali NMT built from scratch with SentencePiece and beam-search decoding. Ranked 5th among 100 students.
02 / ROBOTICS
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Omnidirectional Monocular Perception
A cost-effective 360-degree perception system replacing LiDAR with monocular cameras, using GA localization, YOLO11n detection and real-time validation.
03 / WEB3
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Lord of the Chains
A blockchain-powered medicine supply chain using NFTs for authenticity and traceability, deployed on the Sepolia testnet.
04 / SYSTEMS
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Game Hacking
Explored executable memory, assembly, Ghidra, DLL injection and vulnerability exploitation through the Pwnie Island MMORPG.
05 · Leadership
Making teams click.
Technical depth matters. So does creating the environment where people can do their best work together.
Team Head, Team ERA
Science & Technology Council · IIT Kanpur- Leading a 19-member undergraduate robotics team across technical and operational work.
- Part of the first and only Indian team to qualify for RoboCup MSL 2026.
- Collaborated with 20+ science and technology teams for the SnT Pavilion.
Secretary, Programming Club
Science & Technology Council · IIT Kanpur- Maintained technical roadmaps, blogs and projects for the campus community.
- Led Spring Camps in Machine Learning and Web3 for first-year students.
- Built interest groups around emerging domains and peer-led learning.
06 · Blog
Writing & roadmaps.
Notes, roadmaps and technical explainers written for Programming Club, IIT Kanpur — an archive that grows alongside whatever I'm learning next.
01 / GPU
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Demystifying GPU Computing
A Programming Club explainer on GPU computing, parallel execution and why modern accelerators matter for high-performance workloads.
02 / WEB3
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Web3 Roadmap
A structured roadmap for getting started with Web3, from blockchain fundamentals and smart contracts to building decentralized applications.
MORE
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Browse the full Programming Club blog
More write-ups, roadmaps and spring-camp material from the wider PClub community — this page only holds the ones I authored.
07 · Toolkit
Foundations & fluency.
A strong mathematical and engineering base, paired with the tools to move comfortably from an experiment to a deployed system.
2024 — PRESENT
B.Tech., Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur · CPI 9.5/10
2024
ISC · Class XII
Don Bosco School, Kolkata · 98.25%
2022
ICSE · Class X
Don Bosco School, Kolkata · 99.2%
LanguagesPython · C · C++ · Java · Bash · JavaScript · Solidity · Assembly
ML & DataPyTorch · TensorFlow · NumPy · Pandas · Matplotlib · OpenCV
SystemsROS2 Humble · NVIDIA Jetson · Arduino · Git · Fusion 360
PlatformsKaggle · GitHub · Hugging Face · React.js · LaTeX
CourseworkMachine Learning · Statistical NLP · Signals & Systems · Probability & Statistics · Analog Electronics · Electromagnetism
08 · Featured
Posts & mentions.
A small shelf for public posts, spotlights and media related to my work, scholarships and research journey.
LinkedIn · IIT Kanpur
Scholarship spotlight
A Dean of Resources and Alumni, IIT Kanpur post featuring scholarship recognition.
Open post ↗ LinkedInRoboCup Symposium
LinkedIn update on the journey of ERA IITK to RoboCup Symposium.
Open post ↗ YouTube ShortsShort-form feature
A quick video mention connected to Namaste Arbitrum.
Watch short ↗Let’s build something ambitious.
Open to research collaborations in ML, robotics and vision, competitive research problems like CAFA or IGARSS-style challenges, and robotics teams looking for a perception/controls lead — or an idea that’s just weird enough to be worth trying.