Research Engineer · Sydney, Australia
Abhishek Sebastian
Medical imaging, machine learning, and intelligent hardware. Research engineer at Image X Institute, University of Sydney, and co-founder of HapnX.
contactabhisheksebastian@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/abhisheksebastiangithub.com/abbysebExperience
Image X Institute
Research Engineer
Mar 2026 — Present · SydneyBuilding medical imaging tools for radiotherapy — voxel-wise motion modelling for lung cancer treatment planning.
Deep Learning Researcher Intern
Jan 2026 — Mar 2026 · SydneyInvestigated how gantry angle affects VoxelMap’s predicted deformation vector fields, with Dr Nicholas Hindley and Dr Chandrima Sengupta.
HapnX
Co-Founder
Feb 2026 — Present · SydneyBuilding a local discovery and ticketing product that fights social FOMO with real-time city events.
USYD Robotics Club
Technical Team Member
Sep 2025 — Mar 2026 · SydneyDesigned and 3D-printed sub-1kg competition sumo robots in Fusion 360.
KPMG India
Analyst — Cloud Security
Jul 2024 — Sep 2024 · HyderabadThreat analysis for international clients inside Digital Trust.
Intern — Cyber Risk & Cloud Security
Jan 2024 — Jul 2024 · HyderabadProposals and base research for cloud-security and cyber-risk engagements.
Samsung India
PRISM Developer
Jan 2023 — Aug 2023 · BengaluruResearched and built a static gesture recognition system using UWB sensing.
Origon Systems and Traders
Technical Consultant
Jul 2021 — Dec 2022 · ChennaiSet up IoT labs at Shiv Nadar University — infrastructure, workshops, and mentorship.
Education
University of Sydney
Master of Computer Science
2025 — 2027VIT Chennai
B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
2020 — 2024Selected research
CS-ATR: Capsule-Shaped All-Terrain Robot
First author, IEEE Access (2024). Perpendicular-track mobility, PID tilt correction, simulation and physical prototype evaluation.
doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3508802ViTaL: Plant disease identification
First author (2024). Vision Transformer feature extraction and projection comparisons. Contributions include methodology, software, original draft and project administration.
arxiv.org/abs/2402.17424Technical focus
Perception
Deep learning · Vision transformers · Medical imaging · TinyML · Signal processing · UWB · Face / species recognition
Hardware
IoT · ESP32 / Raspberry Pi · PCB design · Fusion 360 · SolidWorks · FDM 3D printing · Robotics
Security & systems
Cloud security · Threat analysis · Federated learning · Intrusion detection · BLE / path-loss models