Rithvik Suren Aerospace Robotics · AI Autonomy Get in touch
Connecticut, USA · Open to aerospace roles & collaboration

I build autonomous
aerospace robots. AI for control, perception, and planning — from simulation to real hardware.

High-school engineer working on spiking-neural-network rovers, orbital-debris removal, and physics-informed forecasting for space exploration.

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Rithvik Suren wiring a Raspberry Pi-based rover prototype at a workbench

Bench-testing the rover's onboard compute, 2025.

1stGENIUS Olympiad gold, 69+ nations
$75KSamsung Solve for Tomorrow award
Top 103M Young Scientist Challenge, U.S.
IEEEPublished at ICDL / NCDL, top 10%
Project library

Selected systems.

Hierarchical spiking neural network mapping sensors to a quadruped gait FIG.01 — SNN-PPO GAIT CONTROLLER gait(t) sensorsSNN L1SNN L2actuation
Aerospace autonomy 2025

Neuromorphic rover control

AerospaceAutonomyNeuromorphic
ProblemA rover must act alone — under radiation, noise, and a tight power budget.
ApproachA hierarchical spiking network, trained with PPO, drives the gait.
ValidationCAD + 3D-printed CADRE-class hardware, tested on Mars-like terrain.
Top 10%of international submissions
IEEE ICDLNCDL workshop

Spiking NN · PPO · Onshape · 3D print · Raspberry Pi

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Solar-powered capture craft de-orbiting a defunct satellite from low Earth orbit FIG.05 — ELECTROMAGNETIC DE-ORBIT defunct sat capture craft controlled re-entry
Space exploration 2025

Orbital debris removal

AerospaceSpace explorationHardware
ProblemDefunct satellites clutter orbit and threaten active missions.
ApproachA solar-powered electromagnetic capture device to de-orbit dead satellites.
ValidationMVP concept + system specs for capture and controlled disposal.
MVPcapture-and-deorbit concept
LEOtarget debris regime

Electromagnetics · Solar power · CAD · Orbital mechanics

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Seismic waveform with model forecast window and confidence band FIG.02 — CNN-GRU + ATTENTION FORECAST forecast observedt = now
Perception · Earth systems 2025

TektonForecast AI

AutonomyPerceptionEarth systems
ProblemEarthquake warning is uneven and ignores the underlying physics.
ApproachCNN-GRU + attention on GPS and seismic, physics-embedded via SPIFE.
ValidationCustom triaxial IoT sensor; K-fold cross-validation.
95%MAPE accuracy
Top 103M Young Scientist

CNN-GRU · Attention · SPIFE · IoT sensor · K-fold

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Optical interferometer mesh routing an in-memory compute path FIG.03 — PHOTONIC MESH · ColloP optical inMZI layer 1MZI layer 2read-out
Neuromorphic hardware 2024

Optical neuromorphic compute

Neuromorphic
ProblemThe memory wall caps how far deep-learning workloads can scale.
ApproachAn optical + spiking mesh computes in-memory (ColloP).
ValidationBenchmarked head-to-head against conventional architectures.
~30×faster
~90%less RAM

Optical NN · Spiking · In-memory · Async logic

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Thermal grid of a city with a predicted heat-island hotspot outlined FIG.04 — CNN-LSTM THERMAL FORECAST predicted hotspot cool hot
Perception · sustainability 2025

Urban heat-island model

PerceptionEarth systems
ProblemCities trap heat unevenly, and hotspots are hard to localize.
ApproachA CNN-LSTM maps and forecasts heat-island intensity, block by block.
ValidationConnecticut state winner; national top-10, presented in D.C.
$75,000Samsung award
Top 10of 2,800+ teams

CNN-LSTM · Geospatial · Thermal

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In the press & on stage.

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3M Young Scientist harnessing AI and innovation
Global Indian
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2024 Finalist — Young Scientist Challenge
3M · Young Scientist Lab
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2025 GENIUS Olympiad Gold Medal Winner
YouTube
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3M Young Scientist Challenge — project submission
YouTube
News
Samsung names 10 national finalists in Solve for Tomorrow
Samsung Newsroom
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GENIUS Olympiad Gold Medal announcement
LinkedIn
Experience & leadership

Where I build, teach, and lead.

2024 — now STEM ResearcherEnd-to-end research in neuromorphic autonomy, deep learning, and robotics prototyping — model, hardware, and validation. Academy of Aerospace & Eng.
2024 — now Founder & InstructorRamanujan Education Camp — free, first-principles STEM teaching; 17+ students per subject. Ramanujan Education Camp
2025 Team Lead — Samsung Solve for TomorrowDrove the CNN-LSTM heat-island project from CT state win to a national top-10 and D.C. finals. National finalist
2024 Mentored Finalist — 3M Young Scientist ChallengeNational top-10; mentored by a 3M research scientist to advance TektonForecast AI. 3M · national top 10
Publications & talks

Peer-reviewed and presented.

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Developmental Neuromorphic Learning for Autonomous & Adaptive Space-Exploration Robotics

Top 10% of international submissions · archived on CERN's Zenodo (360+ views).

IEEE ICDL · NCDL 2025 Record
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TektonForecast AI: Physics-Informed Deep & Ensemble Learning for Earthquake Forecasting

Oral, 3rd place vs. 200+ students · Connecticut delegate (~3% acceptance).

NJSHS · UConn Health 2025 Details
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GENIUS Olympiad — Gold Medal (1st Place)

First among thousands of entries from 69+ countries, presented at RIT.

RIT · 2025 Video
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Open to research, internships, and collaboration on control, perception, and space robotics. The fastest way to reach me is a LinkedIn message.

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