👋 Hello, I'm Vardhan Dongre

Welcome to my GitHub profile! I’m a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

🛠️ Professional Experience

• Research Scientist Intern at Adobe Research (Incoming Summer 2026)
• Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Science (Incoming Fall 2026)
• Research Scientist Intern at Adobe Research (2025)
• AI Research Software Engineer at Brunswick Corporation (2022–2023)
• Computer Vision Engineer Intern at Brunswick Corporation (2021)

🏆 Awards and Recognition

• 2022 - Ashby Prize in Computational Science, CAII
• 2017 - Silver Medal, Department of Civil Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology

📚 Academic Background

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, UIUC
• M.S. in Computer Science, UIUC
• M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering, UIUC

✨ Projects and Collaborations

I actively collaborate on a range of impactful projects. Some highlights include:

• Digital Agriculture with AIFARMS Institute.
• Embodied Conversational AI with ConvAI Lab for seamless interaction in virtual and physical worlds.
• (Marine) Autonomous Vehicles research at Brunswick Corporation’s I-Jet Lab.

🔗 Connect with Me

Feel free to explore my repositories or reach out through these channels:

🔥 Fun Facts

• 🌍 I’ve worked on projects involving marine autonomous vehicles and Large Language Models.
• 📚 My academic journey spans from Civil Engineering to Computer Science.

👀 What to Expect Here

• Software in Embodied AI and Conversational AI.
• Open-source contributions in Machine Learning, LLM Agents and Embodied AI.