Ohio State · Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering · AIAA Published

Building autonomous systems —
from wildfire drones to flight simulators.

Undergraduate researcher at OSU building hardware-software systems that fly, navigate, and sense. Kalman filters, ROS2 stacks, embedded C++, and a published test stand accepted at AIAA 2026.

ROS2 C++ Arduino / ESP32 Kalman Filter AIAA 2026 Published Honda Aircraft Marvelmind Navigation BNO055 IMU
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Skills

Tech stack.

Hardware-to-software. From bare-metal firmware to full autonomy stacks.

Languages

Python C++ MATLAB Linux

Hardware & Platforms

Arduino Raspberry Pi Jetson BNO055 IMU ESP32 Marvelmind

Tools & Frameworks

ROS2 OpenCV SciKit-Learn GitHub CMake Fusion 360

Experience

Where I've built.

Research, industry, and clinical settings — all with a hardware or systems angle.

Summer Analyst

@ JPMorgan Chase & Co. — Chase Leadership Development Program

Summer 2026 · Incoming
Incoming

Undergraduate Aerospace Researcher

@ OSU Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Jan 2025 – Present
Python MATLAB C++ ROS2 Arduino Kalman Filter CAD
  • Reducing drone orientation error by 85% by implementing Kalman filter on BNO055 IMU from scratch
  • Designed a 3-DOF IMU test stand with ground truth encoder feedback; accepted at AIAA 2026
  • Engineering ≤10ms latency sidestick controller for Honda Aircraft Co. simulator with 500Hz force feedback
  • Achieving 2cm accuracy and 95% success rate using Marvelmind-based autonomous drone indoor navigation
  • Producing 5cm navigation accuracy by architecting a ground robot in C++/Python on Raspberry Pi
  • Developing a wildfire payload fusing RGB and infrared sensors with Jetson inference at 30ms and 92% accuracy

Data and AI Engineering Intern

@ BMW Financial Services

Sep – Dec 2025
Python PostgreSQL Docker LLMs MCP
  • Built MCP server tools connecting internal LLMs to PostgreSQL, improving data retrieval efficiency by 45%
  • Developed 3 Gen AI apps spanning fraud detection, business intelligence, and call center automation
  • Launched an AI governance platform enabling 95+ employees to submit model requests for compliance protocols

Undergraduate Student Researcher

@ OSU Wexner Medical Center — Assistive Technology

Jul 2024 – Present
Python Pandas Power BI MySQL Matplotlib
  • Analyzing 4,000+ patient data points; findings presented to clinicians led to a 25% improvement in outcomes
  • Applying hypothesis testing to identify demographic correlations in assistive technology usage
  • Published as second author at RESNA; presented at 2025 RehabWeek to 2,000+ attendees

Undergraduate Computational Biology Researcher

@ Nationwide Children's Hospital — Immune Response Modeling

Feb 2024 – Jun 2025
Python R Pandas Statistical Modeling
  • Analyzed 1.2M+ spatial data points from 30+ brain tumors for ICI response research
  • Designed fencing algorithms to cluster and analyze immune cell interactions with cancer cells
  • Published in iScience journal after multi-year analysis pipeline development

Projects

Things I've built.

Autonomous vehicles, test stands, and embedded systems from idea to hardware.

Featured Project · May 2026

Autonomous Lego Technic Bugatti

  • Achieved 80% lane-following accuracy via adaptive thresholding at 30fps, publishing steering commands at 20Hz
  • Reduced path deviation by 75% fusing IMU with camera via Extended Kalman Filter over camera-only baseline
  • Architected a 7-node ROS2 Jazzy stack separating perception, planning, and safety layers — mirroring production AV stacks
  • Engineered safety node stopping the vehicle within 20cm; achieved 76% parallel parking success rate over 25 trials
▶ Demo video coming soon
PythonC++ROS2OpenCV ArduinoFusion 360Kalman Filter
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AIAA 2026 · Accepted

3-DOF Attitude Test Stand

  • Designed and built a 3-axis attitude control test stand for drone flight dynamics validation
  • Custom encoder-driven rig measuring pitch, roll & yaw with ground truth feedback
  • Implemented Kalman Filter fusion achieving 85% reduction in orientation error vs. raw IMU
  • Submitted and accepted as first author at AIAA SciTech 2026
MATLABArduinoBNO055 IMU Kalman FilterEncodersCAD
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OSU Aerospace · Active

Wildfire Detection Drone Payload

  • Building fused RGB + infrared payload with Jetson inference at 30ms latency and 92% detection accuracy
  • Custom IMU (Arduino + BNO055 + ESP32) for indoor navigation during reconnaissance missions
  • Marvelmind ultrasonic positioning system achieving 2cm accuracy indoors
PythonArduinoESP32 JetsonMarvelmindOpenCV
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Industry Collaboration

Honda Aircraft Active Sidestick Controller

  • Engineering a flight-grade Active Sidestick Controller for a Honda Aircraft Co. flight simulator
  • Achieving ≤10ms control latency with 500Hz haptic force feedback loop
  • Built in C++ with real-time embedded constraints for pilot training environments
C++Embedded Systems Real-time ControlHaptic Feedback

Research & Publications

Published & recognized.

First-author aerospace work alongside multi-disciplinary research collaborations.

AIAA SciTech 2026 · Aerospace Sciences Accepted

Test Stand Design & Construction for Affordable and Safe Drone Flight Tests

D. Chavan & A. Jhemi (First Author) · OSU Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

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iScience · Cell Press Published

Computational Modeling of Immune Response in Glioblastoma Tumor Microenvironments

D. Chavan (Second Author) · Nationwide Children's Hospital

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RESNA International Conference 2025 Published

Assistive Technology Outcomes: Analysis of Patient Data to Improve Clinical Decision-Making

D. Chavan (Second Author) · OSU Wexner Medical Center · Presented at RehabWeek 2025

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Contact

Let's work together.

Open to embedded systems, robotics, and aerospace engineering opportunities.

dhruvchavan59@gmail.com github.com/dchavan2192 LinkedIn (614) 705-9999
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