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Rishika Bera

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Rishika Bera

Rishika Bera

M.S. in Robotics @ Northwestern

Hi! I’m Rishika, a graduate student in the M.S. Robotics program at Northwestern University. I completed my B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Jodhpur, and I’m passionate about developing intelligent robotic solutions with a focus on LLMs and autonomous systems.

Skills

ROS 2 MoveIt 2 SLAM Python C++ PyTorch Deep Learning Reinforcement Learning LLMs Computer Vision UAV CAD SolidWorks

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Education

  1. MS in Robotics

    Northwestern University

    Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · Evanston, IL

    Robotic Manipulation System Dynamics SLAM Deep Learning Embedded AI Generative AI

  2. B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering

    Indian Institute of Technology – Jodhpur

    Dec 2021 – May 2025 · Rajasthan, India

    Classical Control Theory Kinematics & Dynamics Vibrations Thermodynamics Fluid Mechanics

Work Experience

  1. Summer Undergraduate Research (SURF) Intern

    Purdue University

    May 2024 – Jul 2024 · West Lafayette, IN

    • Built a multimodal pipeline that scrapes, categorizes, and filters text, image, and video data using the ChatGPT API for relevance scoring
    • Developed a video segmentation module to extract relevant clips and filter irrelevant content
    • Implemented LLM-driven image attribute extraction achieving greater than 96% classification accuracy