Computer Science @ UW-Madison | Software Lead @ Wisconsin Robotics | Research Assistant @ Knowledge & Concepts Lab

I am an aspiring systems and software engineer specializing in autonomous robotics (ROS2, path planning, control loops), distributed LLM evaluation pipelines, and high-throughput full-stack systems.

• Software Lead @ Wisconsin Robotics
  • ROS2 Navigation & Control: Built custom 10Hz swerve-drive control loops in ROS2 featuring custom SLEW rate limiting and graceful degradation under telemetry loss.
  • Geodesic Path Generation: Implemented WGS84 Inverse and Direct geodesic algorithms (geographiclib) to compute exact Archimedean spiral search patterns for autonomous object recovery.
  • Geospatial Mapping & Computer Vision: Developed an offline React/Mercator tile-stitching map engine and an OpenCV mergeMertens HDR photography pipeline with autonomous 90° panorama sequencing.
  • Field-tested at the Mars Desert Research Station for the University Rover Challenge 2026 (12th place globally).

• Research Assistant @ Knowledge & Concepts Lab (UW-Madison)
  • High-Throughput Computing: Executing distributed LLM evaluation workflows across 100GB+ multi-agent debate datasets using CHTC clusters and HTCondor.
  • Optimization & Graph Debugging: Replaced proprietary API calls with open-source models (Qwen-3.5-mini) to cut annotation costs to zero while preserving 97% output similarity; resolved complex NetworkX bipartite graph indexing bugs for alignment scoring.

• Full Stack AI Application Intern @ Aragen Lifesciences
  • Hybrid NLP Architecture: Engineered a production meeting analytics platform combining custom SpaCy Named Entity Recognition (NER) and TF-IDF extraction with local LLMs (Gemini-2.5) to boost summary semantic accuracy from 40% to 92%.
  • Low-Latency Backend: Built FastAPI services backed by a 3NF-normalized MySQL database, resolving distributed race conditions for 100+ concurrent users.

💡 A Note on Repositories: Much of my primary codebase exists within public organization repos (such as Wisconsin Robotics) or private institutional repositories (academic research under publication review and enterprise corporate code under NDA).

• 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/aditya-dharap
• 🌐 Academic / University Email: adharap@wisc.edu
• 💻 GitHub: @DopplerEffectReloaded