this site is a work in progress. please don't mind the mess.
i'm currently a junior(? senior? will i even graduate? god knows.) at the university of illinois (uiuc) studying computer science. my interests include robotics, deep learning, math, and software engineering. my goal for the next decade is to make robots ubiquitous in our everyday lives. i'm specifically interested in home robots and robots for manufacturing.
last summer, i was doing full-stack development for capital one. the summer before that, i was finetuning large language models for a startup.
at uiuc, i'm currently a founder and co-chair for SIGRobotics, a special interest group under ACM@UIUC dedicated to encouraging project-based exploration in robotics. i also am currently doing robotics research under Yunzhu Li and Lana Lazebnik.
i'll be working for Anduril Industries this summer, and i'm currently looking for opportunities in robotics, deep learning, and/or software engineering for fall 2025. feel free to contact me via email (advaitpatel04 at gmail dot com) or any of the links below.