Raj Tibarewala

B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering (Cyber Security) · CGPA 8.65 / 10

• Build and validate embedded Linux software for onboard compute (NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, Raspberry Pi) on autonomous drone platforms.
• Prototyped an onboard vision-serving architecture (FastAPI, PyTorch, Hugging Face DETR) that decouples camera capture, threaded model inference and live video streaming, so slow inference does not stall the feed.
• Deploy edge ML inference within latency, power and compute budgets; debug integration issues across sensor, compute and control layers.

• Built Python security tooling: a hybrid AES + RSA encryption tool and an input-capture research tool for studying interception techniques.

IIT Bombay TechFest 2026, PUSHPAK Grand Challenge (Stage 1 submitted) · Python, scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas, pymavlink, FastAPI, React

• Explainable IDS over simulated MAVLink 2 telemetry, fusing protocol-rule, physics-consistency, ML anomaly (benign-only Isolation Forest + Mahalanobis over 11 online features) and SHA-256 firmware-integrity detectors.
• Reproducible evaluation: session-level splits, multi-seed attack-scenario benchmark (23k+ decisions), ML-off ablation, and replay of public PX4 / ALFA flight logs for false-alarm and sim-to-real (KS test) analysis.
• FastAPI / WebSocket backend, React dashboard, and a pytest suite spanning unit, integration, end-to-end and API tests.

IIT Bombay TechFest 2025 · Python, Ultralytics YOLOv8, SegFormer, OpenCV, rasterio, Shapely, Docker

• Turned village-scale GeoTIFF orthophotos and shapefiles into training data: CRS alignment, 640×640 tiling, empty-tile filtering, shapefile-to-label generation, 70/20/10 split, label and CRS validation, visual QA.
• YOLOv8 rooftop detection with four-class roof classification (RCC, Tin, Tiled, Others) and utility detection; SegFormer segmentation of water bodies and roads; Dockerized inference.

India Space Academy · Python, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib

• Estimated the Hubble constant and the age of the universe from Type Ia supernova data; compared the result against Planck 2018.

Python, OpenCV, MediaPipe

• Real-time computer-vision pipeline mapping webcam-detected hand gestures to OS-level file operations.

“Nuclear Thermal Rocket: Design Considerations and Efficiency Optimization for Deep-Space Explorations”

Co-authored under faculty supervision — literature review, background research, technical structuring and manuscript preparation.