03Team Shunya

28 engineers, one team.

MaRS pulls undergrads from mechanical, electronics, computer science, and the basic sciences. Year-round, we design, fabricate, debug, and field rovers as Team Shunya.

Guided by

Faculty advisors.

The IIITDM Kancheepuram professors-in-charge who anchor the club’s research direction, review designs, and mentor every cohort of Team Shunya.

  1. Dr. Karthik C portrait

    Faculty Advisor

    Dr. Karthik C

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  2. Dr. Narendran G portrait

    Faculty Advisor

    Dr. Narendran G

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  3. Dr. Anudeep V portrait

    Faculty Advisor

    Dr. Anudeep V

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Leadership

Team Shunya 2026.

Team Lead, Technical Lead, and Manager for the current season.

  1. Sandheep Rahul V portrait

    01 · Lead

    Sandheep Rahul V

    Team Lead

    Holds the schedule and the rover when both are about to fall over.

  2. Avinash Acharya portrait

    02 · Co-Lead

    Avinash Acharya

    Technical Lead

    The one who finds the bug at 3 AM and writes the fix at 3:08.

  3. Pruthviraj Yadav portrait

    03 · Manager

    Pruthviraj Yadav

    Team Manager

    Calendar is a weapon. Sponsorship deck has Easter eggs.

07 members

Software

Autonomy, perception, path-planning, ground-station.

  • Arpit Srivastava portraitSoftware Lead

    Arpit Srivastava

    Architecture brain. Code reviews land like surgical strikes.

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  • Fida Saifudheen portrait

    Fida Saifudheen

    Tooling + DX. If it should be a script, she's already written it.

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  • Namitha Sai Kolli portrait

    Namitha Sai Kolli

    Autonomy stack contributor. Async/await is her love language.

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  • S Hyensteen Samuel portrait

    S Hyensteen Samuel

    Path-planning enthusiast. ROS topics flow like rivers.

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  • Sanat portrait

    Sanat

    Ground-station tooling. Builds the dashboards everyone forgets to thank him for.

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  • Satyajit S portrait

    Satyajit S

    Vision + perception. Sees patterns in pixels nobody else does.

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    Vihaan Gupta

    Newest to the stack, fastest at the unit tests.

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Electronics

Custom PCBs, power, motor control, comms, telemetry.

  • Vaitheeswaran M V portraitElectronics Lead

    Vaitheeswaran M V

    Solder fume connoisseur. Every PCB has a story.

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  • Adarsh Giri portrait

    Adarsh Giri

    Picks up the iron at midnight and doesn't put it down till the rail reads clean.

  • Archith G portrait

    Archith G

    Power delivery + motor drivers. Quiet hands, loud rovers.

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  • Parvathi R portrait

    Parvathi R

    Communications + telemetry — keeps the link alive on the field.

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  • Rohan Deshmukh portrait

    Rohan Deshmukh

    Sensor stacks. If it has an I2C address, it's already mapped in his head.

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  • Rohith T N portrait

    Rohith T N

    The one debugging the harness while everyone else celebrates the run.

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  • Ujjwala Lekhi portrait

    Ujjwala Lekhi

    Embedded firmware. Treats microcontrollers gently, then pushes them hard.

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Mechanical

Chassis, suspension, end-effectors, fabrication.

  • Bibek Kumar Malik portraitMechanical Lead

    Bibek Kumar Malik

    Chassis whisperer. If it bends, he wants to know why.

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  • Dhriti J N Kashyap portrait

    Dhriti J N Kashyap

    CAD by day, machining drawings by night. Tolerances always tight.

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  • Manas Singh portrait

    Manas Singh

    Lives inside Fusion 360 and emerges only for chai.

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  • Praneeth Bollu portrait

    Praneeth Bollu

    Lathe operator turned design contributor. Makes parts that just fit.

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  • R Lakshay Vardhan portrait

    R Lakshay Vardhan

    Thinks in bolt patterns. Optimises everything.

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  • Raghul U portrait

    Raghul U

    Mechanism design specialist. The one who turns sketches into parts that actually move.

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  • V S Geetha Ranjani portrait

    V S Geetha Ranjani

    End-effector specialist. Loves a good gripper.

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Science

Geology, sample analysis, mission experiments.

  • Kunal Garag portraitScience Lead

    Kunal Garag

    Sample analysis + experimental design. Turns red dirt into data.

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  • Nithish M portrait

    Nithish M

    Newest to the science bench. Curious about everything in the sample jar.

  • Venkata Shruthi Pullela portrait

    Venkata Shruthi Pullela

    Geology + spectroscopy. Reads soil like a novel.

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Management

Strategy, ops, sponsorship, outreach.

  • Depa Varshith Reddy portrait

    Depa Varshith Reddy

    Logistics, ops, the entire travel spreadsheet — keeps the squad moving.

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