Welcome

Thank you for visiting my portfolio.
I am a graduate research associate in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University.
With a proven track record of technical contributions, innovation and a demonstrated history of successful project completion,
I bring expertise in technical competencies such as Statistical Analysis, Deep Learning, Image Processing and Numerical Methods.
My previous work has been funded by US-DOT and NASA, with a focus on scene understanding, uncertainty quantification, and safety-critical systems.

Competencies

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  • Technical Competencies
    Machine Learning
    Computer Vision
    Mechatronics & Prototyping
    Analytics and Visualization
    HPC - OpenMP and MPI
  • Programming Languages and Packages
    Python
    PyTorch
    MATLAB
    Robot Operating System
    C++
    SQL
  • Source Control
    Git
    GitHub
  • Design and Analysis
    Abaqus
    ANSYS
    Star-CCM+
    SolidWorks

Professional Engagements

November 2023
Delivered a guest lecture on Bayesian Statistics for a graduate class in Probabilistic Methods for Engineering Analysis.

October 2023
Vision-Based Decision Support for Improved Situational Awareness in General Aviation

Presented at INFORMS Conference 2023 as an Invited Talk
By Rahul Rathnakumar and Yongming Liu

August 2023
"Epistemic and aleatoric uncertainty quantification for crack detection using a Bayesian Boundary Aware Convolutional Network" accepted at Reliability Engineering & System Safety

July 2023
Successfully defended my PhD proposal at Arizona State University.

November 2022
Delivered a guest lecture on Deep Learning for a graduate class in Probabilistic Methods for Engineering Analysis.

October 2022
Uncertainty-Aware Defect Detection for In-Line Inspection using a Stereo-Vision system

Presented at PRCI REX 2022 Poster Session
By Rahul Rathnakumar and Yongming Liu

August 2022
Improving Situational Awareness for General Aviation Operations

Presented at NASA ULI Annual Meeting 2022
By Rahul Rathnakumar and Yongming Liu

November 2021
A Novel Structured Light-Based Sensing and Probabilistic Diagnostic Technique for Pipe Internal Corrosion Detection and Localization

Presented at PRCI REX 2021 Poster Session
By Mohand Alzuhiri, Rahul Rathnakumar, Yongming Liu and Yiming Deng

October 2020
Invited to present my current and future research agenda at the PHM Doctoral Symposium.

January 2020
AI-enabled Interactive Threats Detection using a Multi-camera Stereo Vision System

Presented at the US DOT Annual Meeting 2020
By Rahul Rathnakumar, Yang Yu, Omar Serag, Kailing Liu, Chinmay Dixit, Yongming Liu

Articles

Initiatives

  • Cogitations@Spotify

    A podcast on the intersection of technology, philosophy and society.

  • Projects

    A collection of projects I've done, with code linked on GitHub.