About.

I like problems where the software has to touch something real.

I did my M.Sc. in Robotics and Embedded AI at Maynooth. Passed in November 2025, graduated in March 2026. My thesis pointed a camera at oat and barley plots and worked out how stressed the plants were before anything showed up to the eye. It got leaf temperature to about 2.1 °C. Before Ireland I studied Mechatronics in Chennai.

The three that actually taught me something were the hard ones. Fusing RGB and multispectral streams so the network could read a physiological signal it has no business seeing from one static frame. Turning a FarmBot CAD export of 1,174 parts into five links Gazebo would simulate and MoveIt could plan against. And writing a browser agent that knows when its own click did nothing, which is a much harder question than it sounds.

None of that was the fun part. It was weeks of shrinking meshes, and a few days lost to an ESP8266 that kept resetting before I found the power rail sagging under the motor driver. I don't really mind. I'd rather hand someone something that runs on real hardware than a notebook that worked once on my laptop.