Vishal Shivaji Patil
I'm Vishal an AIML undergraduate and a deep-tech builder on a singular mission: Innovate to create a highly resourceful world and architect India's next generation of sovereign, ruggedized technologies that harden national infrastructure and sharpen strategic capability.
My philosophy is unambiguous: Research and Innovate with purpose, build with precision, and ship systems that move the needle. I don't prototype for portfolios. I engineer hardware-software ecosystems designed to operate at the frontier of Space-Tech, Edge AI, Quantum Security, and Autonomous Robotics and I take them all the way to field deployment.
🔬 Deployed Systems & Active Builds
Space-Tech & Autonomous Robotics: Architecting Jal Prahari. We engineered an ASV (autonomous surface vehicle )for real-time water quality monitering. By integrating Pixhawk for autonomous waypoint navigation and an NVIDIA Jetson Nano, we process heavy on-device data from remote sensing,multispectral sensors and in-situ probes right at the edge.
Sovereign Data & Strategic Ontology:Building ANVAY (VYUHA-LATTICE), an indigenous Palantir-style data ontology engine. Moving beyond basic retrieval, it utilizes advanced GraphRAG architectures and foundational models to construct dynamic knowledge graphs. This system synthesizes massive, unstructured data sets to map complex relational intelligence across geopolitics, macroeconomics, and national defense logistics for Indian ministries.
Quantum Security: Engineered QuMail, a quantum-secure communication protocol. Further developed during my participation in the MIT iQuHACK 2026, it features a Multi-Level Hybrid Encryption scheme (including the NIST-finalist CRYSTALS-Kyber PQC) designed to explicitly neutralize "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" threats at an infrastructural level.
🏆 Proof of Execution
🥇National Winner- Jal Shakti Hackathon 2025, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India Served as Principal Investigator & Team Lead of Team JyotirVega ,was honored to receive the national award from Shri C.R. Patil, Hon'ble Union Cabinet Minister of Jal Shakti, at World Water Day Conclave 2026,New Delhi.
Grand Finalist, Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2025) at IIT BHU: Directed a cross-functional team of 6 engineers through the full product lifecycle, managing everything from Jetson Nano edge inference pipelines to complex hardware integration and real-world deployment.
Experience
President
Research and Innovation Club
LoGMIEER,Nashik
Cultivating Talent Density: Directed a community of 50+ engineering students, transforming the campus culture from theoretical study to relentless, empirical building and rapid prototyping.
Deep-Tech Mentorship: Mentored cross-functional teams through the entire product lifecycle—guiding students from bare-metal PCB design and embedded systems to training local LLMs and executing live field deployments.
Scaling Crucibles: Organized and scaled large-scale technical hackathons, including 'Hack-a-Prompt,' which drove the rapid prototyping and deployment of GenAI applications across the student body.
Hardware/Software Integration: Fostered an interdisciplinary ecosystem bridging the gap between advanced software (AI/ML) and complex hardware, accelerating top-tier engineering talent into national-level hackathons and B2G infrastructure projects.
Education
Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU)
B.E.
CGPA: 8.4/10.0 | Pune, India AI & Mathematical Foundations: Machine Learning (Supervised/Unsupervised, SVM, PCA, Dimensionality Reduction), Probability & Statistics (Distributions, Markov/Chebyshev inequalities, Hypothesis Testing), Linear Algebra.
Core Computer Science: Data Structures & Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming (C++, Java), Database Management Systems, Distributed Systems concepts.
Skills
HONORS & AWARDS
Selected Cohort
Y Combinator (YC) India (2025)
Selected among the top 2,000 deep-tech builders in India to participate in the exclusive Bangalore summit.
National 1st Place
Government of India, Ministry of Jal Shakti (2025)
Won national honors for engineering and deploying edge-AI autonomous robotics for real-time environmental monitoring.
Participant
MIT iQuHACK (2026)
Competed globally in quantum circuit design and Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) implementations.
Grand Finalist
Smart India Hackathon (SIH 2025): Hardware Edition at IIT BHU.
Managed complex hardware/software integration under extreme operational constraints.
EMPIRICAL ENGINEERING & RESEARCH PROJECTS
ANVAY | Global Ontology Engine & Multi-Hop Reasoning System
Software Architecture, GraphRAG, Neo4j, Foundational LLMs, Kafka, FastAPI
Architected a defense-grade intelligence platform capable of ingesting massive, unstructured datasets (1,000+ streams) via Apache Kafka and Spark, mapping them into a temporal Neo4j property graph. Engineered a highly complex GraphRAG pipeline utilizing open-weight foundational large language models to execute multi-hop reasoning across interconnected geopolitical, economic, and climate nodes.
Developed a decoupled, highly concurrent asynchronous inference layer using FastAPI and WebRTC, enabling sub-200ms audio-driven querying and synthesis of graph data.
Jal Prahari | Edge-AI Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV)
Principal Investigator | Edge ML Inference, Systems Integration, Robotics
Engineered an autonomous robotic catamaran that secured National 1st Place, currently transitioning into a B2G deployment pipeline for large-scale public infrastructure monitoring. Deployed an NVIDIA Jetson Nano to execute local, cloud-independent ML inference (YOLOv8 and multispectral sensor analysis), enabling real-time anomaly detection in zero-connectivity zones.
Bridged the gap between hardware and software by integrating Pixhawk navigation protocols and resolving critical I2C bus bottlenecking during heavy multi-sensor data ingestion.
QuMail & MIT iQuHACK | Quantum-Secure Communication Infrastructure
Quantum Logic Gates, QKD, Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
Engineered simulated Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocols and quantum logic gate sequences as part of the MIT iQuHACK 2026 global competition. Architected a Multi-Level Hybrid Encryption scheme deploying the NIST-finalist CRYSTALS-Kyber Post- Quantum Cryptographic algorithm to secure data infrastructure against "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" threats.
LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY
Club President
Robotics and Innovation Club (RIC), LGMIEER
Core Philosophy: Fostering a culture of shipping ruggedized, interdisciplinary deep-tech by bridging the gap between advanced software (AI/ML) and complex hardware integration. Hackathons & Ecosystem Building: Organized multiple large-scale technical events, including "Hack-a- Prompt" (focused on LLM prompt engineering and AI application development), driving high engagement among 500+ engineering students.
Direct and mentor cross-functional teams of engineers through the full product lifecycle, from bare-metal PCB design and algorithm training to live field deployments.