Azmyin Md. Kamal

Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, iCORE Lab @ Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

M.S in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

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About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State University, where I am developing novel Visual Collaborative SLAM (CSLAM) and Semantic Navigation frameworks for mobile robots operating in a GPS-denied, cluttered indoor environment.

I am supervised by Dr. Corina Barbalata, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Co-director of the iCORE Lab. Here I work with industrial-grade Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) equipped with RGB cameras, LiDARs and inertial sensors and a variety of publicly available SLAM datasets.

In Summer 2025, I worked as a Robotics Intern at Kaliber Labs Inc., a San Mateo based Surgical AI and Robotics company. There I worked with peers from diverse engineering backgrounds in developing a novel semantics-aware advanced navigational skills for home robots powered by Qualcomm's RB5 SoC.

As of Fall 2025, I have passed the General Exam and am officially a Ph.D. Candidate. I am expected to finish by Summer 2026.

In my spare time, I actively contribute and maintain a number of open-source projects, travel to new places and try delicious food with my wife.


Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant, RKinD group, iCORE, LSU.

Profile

Résumé Résumé.pdf
Residency / Nationality U.S Permanent Resident / Bangladeshi
Affiliation Louisiana State University
Department Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Laboratory Innovation in Control and Robotics Engineering Lab
Interests
  • Visual Collaborative SLAM
  • Semantic Navigation
  • 3D Object Detection
  • Predictive Control and Planning
  • Robotics Simulation

Skills

Python & C++

PyTorch

Robot Operating System (1 & 2)

Docker & Git/GitHub

MATLAB

Projects and Publications


Paper
(First Author) [Conference: IEEE/ASME AIM2024] Solving Short-Term Relocalization Problems In Monocular Keyframe Visual SLAM Using Spatial And Semantic Data

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(Co-Author) [Journal: Scientific Reports] Association mining based approach to analyze COVID-19 response and case growth in the United States

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(Co-Author) [Journal: BMC Public Health] Exploring the relationship between mobility and COVID−19 infection rates for the second peak in the United States using phase-wise association

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(First Author) [Conference: IEEE ICASERT 2019] Comparison of Linear Displacement Measurements Between A Mems Accelerometer and Hc-Sr04 Low-Cost Ultrasonic Sensor

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Internship Semantic navigation skill for indoor robots

OSS ros2_orb_slam3: Native integration of ORB-SLAM3 in ROS 2

OSS clearpath_simulator_harmonic: Clearpath Simulator comes to Gazebo Harmonic

OSS python-mppi: Model Predictive Path Integral control of a 2D Differential Drive Robot

Participation Participated in NASA Space ROS Summer Spring Challenge 2024. Curiosity Rover simulated in Open 3D Engine.

Course Project niter2_python: Numba accelereted implementation of Peter Landstorm's "niter2" two-view traingulation method

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Course Project piano_gen: LSTM based Critic/Composer networks for generating piano music.

Master's Thesis Anonymous Multi‑User Tracking in Indoor Environment Using Computer Vision and Bluetooth.

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Course Project Collison-Free, Shortest-Path Planning in 2D Workspace using Genetic Algorithm

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Achievements


05/19/2025 Internship
Applied Robotics Research Scientist Intern @ Kaliber Labs Inc.

Member of Navigation and Robot SDK Workgroups, collaborated with peers across diverse backgrounds in developing new semantic navigation skills on top of Nav2.

02/23/2024 Patent
US20240292188A1: Multimodal Indoor Positioning System

Co-inventor to a pending patent focusing on a novel multimodal approach for indoor positioning, combining spatial and sensory data to enhance GPS-denied indoor localization accuracy in challenging environments.

01/15/2023 - 12/13/2025 Award
Graduate Teaching Assistantship in the Department of MIE, Louisiana State University.
08/15/2021 - 08/15/2024 Award
NSF::NRI Award #2024795: Collaborative Mobile Manufacturing in Uncertain Scenarios

Received a graduate research assistantship through this project, which aimed to develop novel collaborative perception, SLAM, planning, and control techniques for mobile manipulators performing manufacturing tasks in GPS-denied, uncertain environments

01/15/2020 - 07/31/2021 Award
NSF Award #2027688: RAPID: Visual Analytics Approach to Real-Time Tracking of COVID-19

Recevied a graduate research assistant on this NSF-funded project, contributing to the development of visual analytics tools for real-time COVID-19 tracking. This project also funded my Master's thesis of privacy-aware multi-user positioning system using object detection and bluetooth based indoor positioning system.

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