Adithya V. Sastry

Robotics + Origami
Creator of Tin Can Linux
Research Science Institute
Lover of all things tiny

"A dream is not that which
you see while sleeping, it
is that which does not let
you sleep."

-- Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

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The ever-shifting pile of thoughts and stuff.                                [~]

I am an undergraduate student studying Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Duke University. My primary interest lies in exploring how co-designing novel
microprocessor architectures and software paradigms can enable the creation of
small-scale, power-efficient, yet robust robotic systems.

My current and past research has covered areas including reinforcement learning,
robotic control theory, low-power electronics, and energy-harvesting systems.
Read more about some of my relevant experience at the following links:

  - projects/robot-graph-pruning (robotic exploration, RL, transformers)
  - projects/safe-control-aircraft (control theory, safe RL)
  - projects/neuromorphic-sensing (low-power electronics, energy harvesting,
    neuromorphic sensing, supervised ML)

Besides these academic interests, I have been an avid origami enthusiast for
over ten years. I've folded hundreds of models and also designed a few of my
own. I have also recently picked up bonsai. You can check out some of my
creations via the tabs at the top.

About this site
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This website is primarily meant to be a place to showcase my projects and
experience, write about my interests and hobbies, and collect a few thoughts in
my own little corner of the internet.

The site itself is built using 'sed' regex magic to insert plaintext / markdown-
ish documents into an HTML template using <pre> tags to preserve formatting. I
borrowed the idea from the Kiss Linux website, and it works quite nicely.

Contact
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You can reach me over email at zuavs.origamiy example com.  snail