Aaditya Gala
PD – Engineering, Strategy, and Research FCG at Ford Motor Company
Aaditya Gala is a Mechanical and an Electrical Engineer. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Maharaja Sayaji Rao University. He is currently working at Ford Motor Company as a Product Development Engineer in the PCCN division.

Aaditya has always been interested in and has worked on various projects at the intersection of mechanical engineering, electronics, mathematics and programming. As part of his undergraduate curriculum, he worked with a team of four students in designing and building a robotic wrist that was controlled using an accelerometer and a potentiometer. He developed and implemented the algorithm for this project. He was awarded a Gold Medal for the best undergraduate project.

His area of concentration during his M.S. was in "Systems, Measurements and Controls". He worked alongwith his advisor, Dr. Kartik Ariyur, on different projects such as estimating various parameters of an incoming signal using randomization and estimating the position of an aerial vehicle via sensor fusion. He was also a Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate class “Measurement Systems” at Purdue University. For his second M.S. degree he pursued a specialization in controls theory as well.

He is currently employed at Ford Motor Company as a Product Development Software Specialist. He is currently pursuing a Master's in Automotive Engineering in Autonomous Vehicles from the University of Michigan.

When he isn’t glued to a computer screen, he can be found reading books, solving the Rubik’s cube or listening to music.
Ford Motor Company
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PD – Engineering, Strategy, and Research FCG
- Created Design Verification Methods (DVMs) for validating various Part – II service modes. Tested and validated various Part – II service modes in-vehicle using ATI, INCA, DET and PTDiag and on a Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) rig.
- Created physics-based transmission models for 8/10 speed transmissions to test software/calibration.
- Investigated the electrical/mechanical characteristics of an electronic supercharger to determine its compatibility with current vehicle architecture.
- Supported the launch of the F53/F59 (stripped chassis), VN127 (Econoline) and H567 (F650/F750) vehicles by resolving daily assembly floor issues such as ordering\replacing missing\broken parts, updating\correcting missing\incorrect drawings, flashing software to the PCMs etc.
Dearborn, MI
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GURURAJ ENGINEERS
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Trainee Engineer
- Trained on various automation technologies such as PLCs, SCADAs, HMIs, Servo Motors and Servo Drives to gain experience on those systems.
 - Investigated and troubleshooted problems in PLCs and Servo Drives for clients.
 - Developed algorithm to automatically start a furnace, at a time set by the client, thus increasing the efficiency of the production line.
Vadodara Area, India
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Purdue University
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Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Teaching Assistant for junior level course "Measurement Systems" which involved:

- Tutoring students on a one-on-one basis and help them comprehend the subject.
- Instructing the students on the following tools: MATLAB, MS-Excel.
Mechanical Engineering Department, Purdue University
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Automotive Engineering
Master of Engineering - MEng
University of Michigan
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
Master of Science (M.S.)
Purdue University
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Mechanical Engineering; Systems, Measurements and Control
Master of Science
Purdue University
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Mechanical Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering
Faculty of Technology, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University
Embedded Controller Based Real Time Simulation of Roll, Pitch and Yaw Motion
ASME Conference
Describes the design and development of control strategies and algorithms to control and simulate the roll, pitch and yaw motions of a robotic wrist and the conclusions derived from using an embedded controller
“Replication of Human Hand Wrist Movement into Robotic Configuration Using Sensors and  Microcontrollers
4th National Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering
Conference paper describing the design and development of a robotic wrist with 3 degrees of freedom using stepper motors and controlled by sensors such as an accelerometer and potentiometer.
Best Undergraduate Project
Maharaja Sayaji Rao University
Awarded Gold Medal for best undergraduate project titled "Replication of Human Hand Wrist Movement into Robotic Configuration Using Sensors and Microcontrollers"
Applied Maths
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Applied Physics
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Computer Applications in Mechanical Engineering
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Computer Techniques and Programming Language
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Electrical Technology
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Electronics
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Digital Control
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Embedded Systems
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Instrumentation in Mechanical Engineering
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Lumped System Theory
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Microprocessors and Electromechanical Systems
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Non-Linear Engineering Systems
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Programming Parallel Machines
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Random Processes
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System Identification
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Theory and Design of Control Systems
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Non-GPS Aided Navigation via Sensor Fusion.
- Assimilated data from various dissimilar sensors such as IMU, LiDAR, RADAR etc. on-board an aerial vehicle such as a helicopter to obtain accurate position, navigation and tracking data.
- Developed controller algorithms and strategies using “Kalman filters” to achieve “sensor fusion”.
Parameter estimation of incoming signal via random sampling.
- Hypothesized an alternate theory for processing incoming sinusoidal signals without relying on computational and resource heavy methods such as Fast Fourier Transforms and Discrete Fourier Transforms.
- Identified the phase of an incoming sinusoid, with known frequency, in presence of noise even when the signal was under-sampled.
Replication of Human Hand Wrist Movement into Robotic Configuration Using Sensors and Microcontrollers
- Collaborated with a team of 4 students in conceptualizing, designing and building the model using stepper motors as actuators and an accelerometer and a potentiometer as sensors.
 - Led the designing and building of the electronic circuits to control the configuration.
 - Implemented the control algorithm on an Intel 8051 based microcontroller written partly in assembly language and partly in ASM-C.
Map Reduce Algorithm Implementation using OpenMP and MPI
- Implemented MapReduce algorithm in C++ for distributing work on several hundreds of files over multiple cores and multiple processors over different machines using OpenMP and MPI.
- Analyzed speedup and efficiency based on several parameters of workload distribution.
Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer
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National Instruments
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Vrushali Sakharikar
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Vadodara
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Limited
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Mumbai
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Germany
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Niraj Vipra
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Kai Wu
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Ann Arbor, MI
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Paranjay Deshpande
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Detroit, MI
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Mohamad Aslani
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Phoenix, AZ