Hi, I'm Palash. I'm passionate about robotics, AI, and sustainable transport. I've worked on hydrogen airships, robotic arms with vision-conditioned control, and privacy-first financial AI systems. I'm an undergrad @ IIT Bombay.
Current Work
OriAirship | Hydrogen filled Airship
Building a solar-powered autonomous airship for the World Solar Airship Race 2026–27. Working on autonomous algorithms using Raspberry Pi 4 and MicroPython. Part of SPART, a 30+ member institute tech team aiming to fly 6000+ km across the South Atlantic.
Adaptive Modular Arm
Won 1st Prize in the Intelligent Machines category out of 1000+ at Vishwakarma Awards. 3D-printed and assembled SO-101 arm. Fine-tuned SmolVLA and ACT for vision-conditioned control. Built CV-based teleoperation pipeline and Digital Twin in Isaac Sim.
Relevant Links
Selected Projects
MagicBus Intelligence Platform
First Prize at IITB FinEdge Hackathon. Built a secure, privacy-first financial AI system. Ran Qwen3-Omni and Qwen-2.5B locally for on-device inference. Multimodal ingestion, RAG retrieval, MoE reasoning for grounded financial insights.
PayFlow Protocol | Fraud Intelligence Engine
Designed GNN-based fraud graph with transaction topology. Built MoE router with Qwen3 MoE for real-time compliance. On-device GPU inference for AML and fraud scoring. Evaluated on Elliptic++ for cross-chain fraud detection.
Work Experience
Electrical and Controls Engineer
SPART, IIT Bombay
Jan 2025 - Present
Organizer
TechFest - Asia's Largest Science Festival
Dec 2024
Blog
Coming soon...
Reach me at palashpangavhane@gmail.com