IIIT Hyderabad · Computer Science
Itikela Bhaskar
B.Tech + M.S. by Research in CSE — multimodal learning, video understanding, and the systems that ship them.
Undergraduate researcher in the Video-Language Group (CVIT) with Prof. Makarand Tapaswi. Backend developer at Hustlr. Seven hackathon wins spanning on-device AI, agentic data quality, and flood mapping. Case studies here are long-form write-ups when I publish them; Notes are shorter technical logs.
Case studies
Selected engineering work
Notes
Postmortems, research logs, technical writing
The Case for Compliant Mechanisms in Soft Robotics
Why monolithic flexures often beat assembled joints for small-scale soft robots, and the design rules I keep coming back to.
Simulating Fluid Dynamics with Lattice Boltzmann Methods
A practical, code-first introduction to LBM for engineering students who already know Navier–Stokes but haven't simulated anything.
Why Mechatronics Students Should Learn Rust
Embedded C is fine. Rust gives you the same control plus a borrow checker that catches the bugs that actually take down your robot.