Lakshay Arora

PhD Candidate | Aerospace | ML | Data Science

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About Me

Ph.D. candidate with 5+ years of experience applying AI/ML to solve real-world business problems. Strong record of delivering results across finance, aerospace, and healthcare using data-driven modeling, deep learning, and generative AI.

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Experience

Applied Machine Learning Researcher

Carleton University – SRCL
Sep 2020 – May 2025 | Ottawa, Canada

  • Developed path planning using Koopman Expectation for spacecraft RPOD.
  • Integrated deep learning for autonomous trajectory optimization.

AI/ML Research Associate

Mitacs Internship @ AI Quest / George Brown College
May 2022 – Sep 2022 | Toronto, Canada

  • Designed and developed a prototype for a pharmacovigilance system to improve drug safety in patients.
  • Leveraged Twitter API to scrape tweets containing pharmacovigilance information, using relevant keywords in Python and analyzed large datasets for ADR prediction (↑15% accuracy).

Machine Learning Researcher

Wichita State University
Sep 2017 – Feb 2020 | Kansas, USA

  • Developed a new formulation that facilitates the application of reinforcement learning to the problem of spacecraft orbit raising.
  • Proposed a mathematical formulation for the orbit-raising problem in the framework of reinforcement learning to enable adaptive modification of the relative weights in the objective function during a transfer.

Projects

Cost of Living Tool

Student Cost-of-Living Calculator

Streamlit app for Canadian students to estimate expenses using Gemini Pro AI.

Live Site
GitHub Repo
Pharmacovigilance Project

Pharmacovigilance via Twitter NLP

Built during Mitacs Internship (Mitacs BSI), this project leveraged Natural Language Processing to extract and analyze adverse drug reactions (ADR) from tweets for pharmacovigilance applications. Processed over 30GB of data to improve ADR prediction accuracy by 15%.

GitHub Repo
Rendezvous Guidance

Deep RL for Spacecraft Rendezvous

Reinforcement learning-based trajectory optimization under uncertainty.

GitHub Repo
Flight Fare Prediction

Flight Fare Prediction using ML

A complete end-to-end project to predict the domestic flight prices in India depending on various features using Random Forest Regressor and XGBoost Regressor which is then deployed as a Flask Web Application on Render.

Live Site
GitHub Repo
Robotic Arm

Adaptive Robotic Arm Control

Adaptive control for 2-DOF robotic arm with uncertain payloads.

GitHub Repo
HR Analytics Project

HR Analytics for Retention

Analyzed HR data using classification models to identify key employee attrition factors and predicted churn risk. Delivered actionable insights to improve retention strategies for organizations.

GitHub Repo

Publications

AAS Conference

Koopman Expectation-Based Guidance for Spacecraft Rendezvous and Proximity Operations under Uncertainties

35th AAS Space Flight Mechanics Conference (Accepted)

SciTech

Reinforcement Learning for Sequential Low-Thrust Orbit Raising Problem

AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum

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AAS

Objective function weight selection for sequential low-thrust orbit-raising optimization problem

AIAA/AAS Space Flight Mechanics Meeting

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Skills

Programming Languages

  • Python
  • Julia
  • MATLAB
  • R
  • C++
  • SQL

Machine Learning

  • Generative AI
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Deep Learning & NLP
  • Bagging & Boosting

Libraries & Tools

  • NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn
  • TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch
  • LangChain, PySpark

Visualization

  • Tableau
  • Excel, PowerPoint
  • LaTeX

Other Tools

  • Simulink
  • Microsoft Office Suite

Languages

  • English (Fluent)
  • Hindi (Fluent)
  • German (A2)

Education

Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering

Carleton University — Ottawa, Canada
2020 – 2025

Focus: Spacecraft Guidance, Path Planning under Uncertainty, AI in Autonomous Space Missions.

MS in Aerospace Engineering

Wichita State University — Kansas, USA
2017 – 2020

Thesis: Reinforcement learning framework for spacecraft low-thrust orbit raising
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B.Tech in Aeronautical Engineering

Manipal Institute of Technology — India
2013 – 2017

Certifications

IBM Certificate

IBM Data Science

Specialization on Coursera

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IMS Certificate

Business Analytics

By IMS Proschool

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Contact

Email: lakshaya32@gmail.com

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