aditya mahes👋
biomedical engineering @ university of waterloo
robots & medical devices & bcis
- robotics and embodied ai @ apple + wsdl
- brain-controlled devices @ watolink
- humanoid robotics @ watonomous
- exoskeletons for stroke rehab

my stuff
hardware5
Modular UMI-style Gripper
- Handheld gripper recording demos from a phone (camera + IMU), width sensing (encoder), and tactile sensing (in progress)
- ResNet-MLP and diffusion policies trained on the recordings
- Trigger-driven gearbox + quick-change interface: one handle, many heads
- Encoder & microcontroller PCB in Altium, firmware streams width to the phone now and tactile data later
SolidWorks · Altium · Firmware · Robot Policy
Exoskeleton for Stroke Rehab
- Full electrical system + elbow joint assembly
- STM32 over SPI / I2C / UART to encoder, IMU, 2 EMG sensors
- 3-phase BLDC driven by field-oriented control
- Assist-as-needed torque, tapering as the patient recovers
- EEG intent detection in progress
Altium · STM32 · BLDC / FOC · EMG · EEG
coming soon
5-DOF Robotic Arm
- Full CAD in SolidWorks: 2-finger gripper, Optimus-style wrist
- Paired MG996R servos at the shoulder & elbow
- Joint torque & range of motion validated in MuJoCo
- Arduino C++ pick and place of small objects
- Numerical optimization, Jacobian transpose, geometric IK
SolidWorks · Arduino · C++ · MuJoCo

Humanoid Hand
- Tendon-driven hand w/ WATonomous
- 3D printed knuckle joint: adduction & flexion
- Passive spring extension, 50% fewer motors
- Testing jig for team prototypes
SolidWorks · Fusion · DFMA · 3D Printing

3D Dynamic Goose Puzzle
- 22-part puzzle, Canadian sports teams
- Clearances tuned for tight & loose fits
- Drawings, exploded diagrams, BOM
SolidWorks · 3D Printing

neurotech / ml4
Hawking AI: Speaking with Biosignals
- Faster comms for speech & motor impairments
- 30 WPM from 3 EMG jaw sensors
- Real-time sentence prediction pipeline
- Speech-to-text + personalized voice synthesis
FastAPI · React · EMG
Brain Controlled Drone
- Neural flight control w/ WATOLINK
- CNN decoding 3 motor imagery classes, 85%
- TCP/IP bridge to a custom Android app
- DJI Android SDK relays commands to the drone
Android SDK · CNN · EEG · PyTorch

Palmitoylation Site Predictor
- DNN predicting palmitoylation sites in proteins
- Trained on UniProtKB + SwissPalm
- Flags proteins linked to neural disease
Bioinformatics · TensorFlow

Neuroplay: Brain Controlled Games
- Brain-controlled Chrome dino game
- SSVEP EEG collected & labeled with BrainFlow
- Bandpass, FFT, artifact suppression
- CNN / CCA / SVM / CSP — 85% accuracy, low latency
Unity · OpenBCI · BrainFlow · PyTorch

experience
Robotics Engineering Intern @ Apple + WSDL
May 2026 – Sep 2026
Hardware Team Lead @ WATOLINK
Building a custom low-noise biosignal amplifier PCB and headset for EEG acquisition
Dec 2025 – Current
WATOnomous — Humanoid Hardware Member25F, 26W
DietIQ — AI/LLM Engineer25S
Guelph City Council — President of Youth Council22–25
Mr Sub Sandwiches — Crew Member25S
Bluenotes — Sales Associate25S