Dhruv Datta
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Junior @ Texas A&M University, Open to Internships!

DHRUVDATTA

Mechanical +Manufacturing Engineer

Prev @NASA + GE Vernova

Selected Experience

Robotics + Software

  • Robotics Automation and Design Laboratory

    Robotics Engineering Intern

    5 months

    • Built a ROS2 robotics simulation stack using URDF/XACROs to model robot kinematics and closed loop control behavior.
    • Integrated task space control with a robotic arm for the ISS, using multibody dynamics to quantify coupled spacecraft motion caused by robotic arm actuation.

    ROS2 simulation and task space control for an ISS robotics arm, with Drake analysis of spacecraft motion.

  • Nanorobotics Lab

    Mechanical Engineer

    1 year

    • Developed a closed loop microrobot simulator integrating trajectory generation, dynamics, PD control, and actuation
    • Fabricated microrobot prototypes in SolidWorks and UV resin printing to support simulation to hardware experimentation

    Closed loop microrobot simulation and UV resin printed prototypes for hardware experiments.

Hardware

  • NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

    Mechanical Engineering Intern

    5 months

    • Built FEMAP finite element models for test hardware, verifying strength and structural margins against design requirements
    • Analyzed welded and bolted joints using FEA reaction loads, FBDs, and hand calculations to validate mechanical hardware

    FEMAP models and joint analysis, checked against test.

  • GE Vernova

    Aeroderivative Systems Design Engineering Intern

    3 months

    • Led design proposal addressing a 500 kW performance loss per engine, evaluating modifications to prevent $20M+ in losses
    • Conducted CFD and flow simulations on 2 stages of GE aerospace engines to evaluate performance and design improvements

    CFD on two engine stages; a proposal against $20M+ in losses.

Every subsystem tells part of my story.

An interactive map of the engineering behind what I build.

  • Hardware Design: Experience designing and validating mechanical hardware through CAD, FEA, CFD, and physical testing. Skills: SOLIDWORKS, CREO, FUSION 360, ANSYS CFD, FEMAP FEA, GD&T.
  • Perception: Experience with camera based perception through image preprocessing, visual data pipelines, and extracting information for robotic control systems. Skills: OPENCV, PYTHON, IMAGE AND VIDEO PREPROCESSING, ROS 2 IMAGE PIPELINES, COMPUTER VISION, TCP.
  • Intelligence: Experience training and evaluating learned policies for robotic decision making, including vision to action models, imitation learning, and closed loop control. Skills: PYTORCH, CNN, VISUAL ACTION MODELS, VISUAL LANGUAGE MODELS, GRADIENT BOOSTED DECISION TREES, IMITATION LEARNING.
  • Compute: Experience building physics based simulations for robotics and hardware systems testing machine learning policies and controls. Skills: PYTHON, URDF, UNITY, DRAKE, MULTIBODY DYNAMICS, HYDROELASTIC CONTACT.
  • Controls: Experience with closed loop robotic control, including task space manipulation, joint control, path tracking, and ROS 2 system integration. Skills: ROS 2, PID CONTROL, TASK SPACE CONTROL, JOINT SPACE CONTROL, PATH TRACKING, FEEDBACK CONTROL.

The machine comes back together, and its sensor comes on

Physical AI: perception, policy, control and actuation in one closed loop

Selected work

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I'm always interested in new opportunities!

Currently looking for a Summer 2027 Internship!

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