Ajay Gunalan
Postdoctoral Researcher at The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAjay Gunalan is a robotics-focused postdoctoral researcher with nine years of hands-on experience building perception-driven control systems for surgical and teleoperated robots. He blends deep academic expertise from a PhD in Bioengineering and Robotics with practical systems engineering—developing ROS/ROS2 visual servoing, hybrid force-admittance control for UR5e arms, multisensor streaming on Jetson, and OCT-guided laser microsurgery using compressive sensing and SAM-based tracking. Comfortable in C++/OpenCV and real-time embedded contexts, he has improved low-level driver communication, CAN and shared-memory IPC, and implemented robust tracking with Kalman filtering. Based in Baltimore, he brings a maker’s pragmatism—“developing what is necessary”—to translate cutting-edge research into reliable, deployable robotic systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
10th Grade, 87.4%, 10th Grade, 87.4% at A.V.Meiyappan Matriculation, ChennaiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioengineering and Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioengineering and Robotics at Università degli Studi di GenovaBachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering, 8.45/10.00, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering, 8.45/10.00 at BSA Crescent Institute of Science and Technology12th Grade, Physics, Chemistry, Math and Computer Science, 88.0%, 12th Grade, Physics, Chemistry, Math and Computer Science, 88.0% at GRT Mahalakshmi Vidyalaya, Chennai
English, Tamil
Github Skills (31)
robotics10
roamresearch9
copilot9
obsidian8
localization8
chatgpt7
sublime-text7
claude7
ai7
embedded6
openembedded6
jekyll6
static-site6
markdown6
drake5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ajaygunalan/robotic_arm
Apr 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:42 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
ajaygunalan/notes
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
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