Rian Borah

I'm a student in the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University in the MRSD program. My research interests are in Robot Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Optimal & Robust Control, and Computer Vision.

I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Cruz.

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Research

I am currently working on a project focused on 3D reconstruction of egocentric video data to create simulations for robot policy training.

Experience

SyncQ — VP of Engineering
New Delhi, India | May 2025 – July 2026
Led engineering, operations, strategy, sales, and development.

SOLO World Partners — Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer
Detroit, MI | Oct 2024 – Apr 2025
Transformer-based vision models for warehouse and logistic QA for automotive components and ERP integrations.

TDK InvenSense — Engineer Intern, SmartRobotics Team (R&D)
San Jose, CA | Jun 2024 – Sep 2024
Developed embedded sensor fusion algorithms for inertial navigation and haptic teleoperation systems.

Rolandi Bioelectronics Lab — Undergraduate Researcher
Santa Cruz, CA | Jan 2023 – Jun 2023
Developing bioelectronic devices for intelligent control of wound regeneration, under the DARPA-BETR program.

Education

	Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, PA M.S. in Robotic Systems Development (MRSD) Robotics Institute — School of Computer Science Aug 2026 – May 2028 \| GPA: 4.0/4.0
	University of California, Santa Cruz — Santa Cruz, CA B.S. in Computer Engineering (Concentration: Digital Hardware) Baskin School of Engineering Sep 2021 – Mar 2024 \| Graduated in 2.5 years
	Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram — New Delhi, India High School, May 2021 — CBSE \| (Sciences + CS) 96.6%

Selected Projects

Ego2Sim – Simulated Worlds from Egocentric Video Sep 2026 – Dec 2027 3D reconstruction of egocentric video data to generate evaluation-ready simulation environments for robot policy training.
	Deep RL-based Control of a Quadrotor with Double Pendulum Payload Oct 2026 – Dec 2026 Training model-free deep RL algorithms (PPO, SAC, TD3) to learn controllers for underactuated, chaotic dynamics.
	F1Tenth – Autonomous Racing Aug 2026 – Sep 2026 1/10 scale autonomous racing with reactive methods and RRT* for path planning & obstacle avoidance.
	Bipedal Robot – Hardware Design & Locomotion via Reinforcement Learning Jun 2026 – Aug 2026 Designed & fabricated a 6-DoF biped. Trained end-to-end RL locomotion policies in mjlab using PPO.
	DNN-MatMul Accelerator (TPU / Tensor Processing Unit) Jan 2024 – Mar 2024 Built a parametric systolic array generator for arbitrary matrix multiplication via HW/SW co-design in Chisel HDL.
	6502 Emulator Aug 2023 – Present Cycle-accurate 6502 emulator in C++.
	Autonomous Soccer Robot — UCSC, B.S. Capstone Project Jan 2023 – Mar 2023 Fully autonomous robot for miniature soccer with a custom RTOS/event-driven scheduler, feedback-controlled omni-wheel drive, and analog IR detectors with Chebyshev filters.

Honors & Awards

Stanford Exposure to Research & Graduate Education (SERGE) Scholar, Stanford University, 2022
Above and Beyond Computer Science (ABCS) Fellow, Meta, 2022
Undergraduate Dean's Scholarship, UC Santa Cruz, 2021
International Student Entrance Scholarship, University of Waterloo (one of 20/year), 2021

Teaching

CSE 120: Computer Architecture (RISC-V) — Undergraduate Group Tutor ×2, UC Santa Cruz

Website design from Jon Barron — source code.