Nandini Rao

Research Assistant @ ARCANA Research Group @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Country

United States

City

San Jose

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

C++, C (Programming Language), PyTorch, Python (Programming Language), Robot Operating System (ROS), Raspberry Pi, Java, MATLAB, I2C, Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

Experience

Research Assistant @ ARCANA Research Group

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2025-6 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Adaptive cache hierarchies

Research Assistant @ Reliable Autonomy Research Group

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2024-1 - 2025-12 · 2 yrs

Champaign, Illinois, United States

- Implementing nonlinear dynamic systems using PyTorch to compute reachable sets for vehicle proximity analysis - Utilized ROS framework to model vision-based vehicle lane following

Data Collection Team

WaggleNet

2024-2 - 2025-12 · 1 yr 11 mos

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Undergraduate Research Scholar

SRC Research Scholars Program

2024-7 - 2025-6 · 1 yr

IBM-sponsored research scholar working on programming models for processing-using-memory @ ARCANA group.

Outreach Lead

Lynbrook Robotics

2019-8 - 2023-6 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Research Intern @ UC Santa Cruz

Science Internship Program

2022-6 - 2022-8 · 3 mos

- Developed custom-built Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)-based biosensors - Improved detection accuracy and efficiency by conducting and analyzing simulations in MATLAB

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Computer Engineering

2023 - 2027 · 4 yrs

James Scholar Honors Program Minor in Mathematics Relevant Coursework: Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Data Structures, Algorithms & Models of Computation, Applied Parallel Programming, Analog Signal Processing, Probability w/ Engineering Applications