Keval Shah
Controls Engineer at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeval Shah is a controls engineer and robotics specialist with eight years of hands-on experience across research, industry, and teaching, currently advancing autonomy and control systems at Enyuare and WPI. He holds dual MS degrees in Robotics (Mechatronics) and Aerospace from WPI with near-perfect GPAs and focuses on motion planning, dynamics, and model-based control for robotic manipulators, UAVs, and quadrupeds. His work spans end-to-end implementation: C++/ROS/Gazebo experiment setups, MATLAB prototyping, SymEngine/Odeint dynamics implementation, and PX4-based flight controller design. Keval has bridged academia and industry—extracting Vicon data for UAV localization, designing gait and trajectory generation for Solo-8, and tuning real-world controllers and filters for stabilization. He pairs rigorous theoretical grounding with practical engineering (KiCAD, embedded logging, TCP/IP communication architectures) and a habit of seeking intuitive understanding of complex systems. Outside core projects he enjoys discussing mathematics, history, and philosophy, reflecting a broad curiosity that informs his problem-solving approach.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, 4.0/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, 4.0/4.0 at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBachelor of Engineering, Instrumentation, 3.6/4.0, Bachelor of Engineering, Instrumentation, 3.6/4.0 at Vidyavardhinis College of Engineering and Technology Vidyavardhinis College Campus Vasai Road (Western Railway) Dist Thane 401 202
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (37)
robot8
calibration8
gazebosim8
robot-control7
robotics7
moveit7
ros7
robotics-simulation7
robot-simulator6
python-interface6
ignition6
simulation6
rendering6
gazebo-simulator5
sdf5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kev278/visual-based-manipulation
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
kev278/mobile-robot-dynamics
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:22 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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