Kashish Dhal
Robotics Engineer at Apple
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolKashish Dhal is a robotics engineer with a Ph.D. in reactive motion planning and eight years of experience building autonomous systems for drones, rovers, and soft robots. He blends deep theoretical work—nonlinear control, collision-cone and dynamic inversion methods—with hands-on hardware integration using PX4, Pixhawk, Raspberry Pi, and VICON for real-world validation. Experienced in ROS/ROS2 and micro-ROS, he has implemented motion planning, cooperative control, and state estimation pipelines in C++ and Python, and interned at Vecna Robotics before joining Apple to architect autonomy software using open-source frameworks. Certified as a commercial remote pilot (FAA Part 107), he uniquely pairs laboratory research rigor with field-operational know-how and firmware-to-algorithm system design.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering, 3.88, Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering, 3.88 at The University of Texas at ArlingtonBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, 3.96, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, 3.96 at Lovely Professional University
German, Hindi, English, Punjabi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
pcl10
intel10
camera10
realsense10
ros10
mavlink9
autopilot9
drones9
px49
rover9
wifi9
access-point8
raspberry-pi8
ros-driver8
macros8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kashishdhal/team2_uvs
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:6 pushes in 8 months
kashishdhal/asl_gremlin_pkg
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
ROS package for online trajectory generation and tracking using nonlinear control law for ground vehicle
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 months
roboticsros-packagelawnonlineartracking
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