Navneet Sai Kadali

Navneet Sai Kadali

3rd year Information Security at VIT

Greater Chennai AreaRobotics and Autonomous Systems
7roles
54skills
1education
6credentials

About

I am Navneet Sai Kadali, currently pursuing B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering at VIT Vellore. I am an energetic computer science student with a broad interest in robotics, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. My roles as the CS and Autonomous department member, CS and Autonomous department lead have been pivotal in exploring all the classroom concepts into real-world applications. Design and development of award autonomous stack for renown competitions such as IRC and URC led me to explore the capabilities of our systems to their fullest. These experiences reflect my passion for innovation, adaptability, and my eagerness to embrace new challenges. As I seek opportunities to expand my knowledge and contribute to the ever-evolving tech landscape, I'm prepared to immerse myself in learning opportunities that encourage learning, growth, and impactful contributions.

Experience

Vice Captain

Team RoverX

Oct 2025 - Feb 2026 · Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Working on fulfilling the role of Vice-Captain by coordinating and managing the various departments in the team to promote technical advancements in the rover and managing the team's finances.

CS and Autonomous Systems Lead

Team RoverX

Jun 2025 - Oct 2025 · Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Resolved multiple key problems in the current code base and explored implementation of new mechanisms.

CS and Autonomous systems engineer

Team RoverX

Apr 2024 - Jun 2025 · Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Best Autonomous Expedition Award at International Rover Challenge 2024. 2nd place in International Rover Design Challenge 2024. 4th place overall in International Rover Challenge 2024.

Robotics Developer

Freelance Consulting

2024 – Present · Remote

Developed a smart parking system using ZED 360 and RTAB-Map. Built real-time face and emotion recognition pipelines using OpenCV, DeepFace, and transformer-based sentiment models for humanoid robots.

Vice Captain

RoverX

Sept 2025 – Feb 2026 · Vellore, India

Directed a 20-member cross-functional team across autonomy, perception, and systems; managed the technical roadmap, system integration, and an approximate USD 12,000 budget for end-to-end rover deployment.

CS & Autonomous Systems Lead

RoverX

Jun 2025 – Sept 2025 · Vellore, India

Patched and extended Intel RealSense drivers to support newer NVIDIA JetPack versions, resolving compatibility issues. Designed a modular autonomous navigation stack integrating GPS-based global planning with onboard perception and control.

CS & Autonomous Systems Member

RoverX

Jun 2024 – Jun 2025 · Vellore, India

Built a full autonomy pipeline using RTAB-Map for VSLAM, D* Lite path planning, YOLOv11 perception, and Jetson Orin Nano for real-time onboard execution.

Education

Vellore Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer science and engineering, Information Security

Aug 2023 - May 2027

Skills

Robot Operating System (ROS)Computer visionNeural networksProgrammingProblem SolvingComputer EngineeringAnalytical SkillsDiscordVideo GamesGPT-3OpenCVObject DetectionLarge Language Models (LLM)Network SecurityInformation SecurityArtificial Intelligence (AI)C++SQLJavaPattern RecognitionRobotics developmentAutonomous navigationMachine learningDeep learningRTAB-MapVSLAMD* Lite path planningYOLODeepFaceTransformer modelsGPS-based global planningIntel RealSenseNVIDIA JetsonPyTorchFastAPIFlaskSegFormerDeepLabV3+Google Earth EnginePlanetary ComputerAWS Kinesis Video StreamsLSTMIoTCARM AssemblyRaspberry PiQEMUZeekScikit-learnTransformersRandom ForestIsolation ForestNetwork intrusion detectionTLS JA3 fingerprinting

Projects

AI Personal Assistant

• Built an RAG-based AI Companion using LLaMa for responses and ChromaDB as vector database, Live 2D models for character, and with BERT based sentiment analysis for interactive facial expressions. • Increased relevance of responses by 50% while maintaining various story lines based on a predefined character outline passed to the model by a PDF document. • Added Playwright as an MCP tool to access web browser content, enabling real-time content retrieval from multiple web sources

SaleriOS

• Engineered a real-time Operating System (RTOS) based on microkernel architecture for the Raspberry Pi 4, leveraging QEMU for efficient development, testing, and debugging in a virtualized environment. • Implemented foundational OS components, including a custom C standard library, boot mechanism for system initialization, and a TTY console for essential command-line interaction and debugging. • Developed a complete, self-contained software stack from scratch for bare-metal hardware, with memory and process management.

ExploreSat

Developed a multi-spectral land-cover segmentation pipeline using six-band Sentinel-2 data, Google Earth Engine, Planetary Computer, SegFormer, and DeepLabV3+, and deployed a FastAPI service for batch inference and GeoTIFF export.

CrowdSentinel

Led development of an IoT crowd-risk system streaming edge video from AMB82 via Flask to AWS Kinesis Video Streams, with YOLO26 and LSTM models for real-time stampede-risk classification.

Sheild

Created a Zeek-based intrusion detection pipeline using flow features and TLS JA3 fingerprints, with a hybrid Transformer autoencoder, Random Forest, and Isolation Forest detection system and weighted risk scoring for automated threat mitigation.