Ritwik Shankar
Showcasing my professional journey
UPDATES
| Aug 2025: | Started my Masters in Aerospace Eng. at IIT Kanpur |
| Arpil 2025: | Completed a 10 week research internship at Caltech in Prof. Ames' research group : Presentation link |
| March 2025: | Received Frank N. Piasecki Scholarship from the Vertical Flight Society for exceptional work on vertical flight technology |
| Jan 2025: | Received Academic Excellence Award from IIT Kanpur for an exceptional Academic Perform Index |
| Aug 2024: | My first "first author" paper on "Vision-Based Landing of UAV on Simulated Ship Deck with Roll Pitch and Sway Motions" got accepted in VFS forum 81 Conference to be held in Virginia Beach, Virginia |
| Nov 2024: | Successfully Defended my final BTech thesis in front of the undergraduate committee |
| Nov 2024: | Completed Modern controls (EE650) mini-project to linearly track drones via state feedback contoller under Dr Twinkle Tripathy |
| Oct 2024: | Became one of ten Receipients to get IndiaAI Fellowship all over India |
| Aug 2024: | Our paper on "Vision-Guided autonomous UAV landing on moving ship" got accepted in 2025 AIAA SciTech Conference to be held in Orlando, Florida |
| Jul 2024: | Received the Skylark Award & Scholarship given to only One UG student from final & pre-final year |
| Jul 2024: | Completed summer internship with Endure Air |
| Nov 2023: | Successfully Defended my first BTech thesis in front of the undergraduate committee |
| Aug 2023: | Joined the Helicopter and VTOL Laboratory at IIT Kanpur to work under guidance of Dr. Abhishek |
| Aug 2023: | Completed SURGE research internship |
| May 2023: | Promoted to Aeromodelling Club coordinator and Football team Vice-Captain |
| Dec 2021: | Joined IIT Kanpur as an undergraduate in Dept. of Aerospace Engineering |
About me
UNDERGRADUATE @IIT Kanpur
I am a Senior Undergraduate in the department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT KANPUR.I am really passionate about knowing about anything which flies.
My research interests include Rotorcrafts, Reinforcement Learning for stable gait generation, Computer vision and ML based algorithms to solve problems relating to autonomy and Implementing these algorithms to UAV's using optimal controls strategies. I also have experience with Design optimisation for performance maximisation of Aerial Vehicles.
I am Goal Oriented person, literally, holding the midfield and captaining IITK FC
