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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/abbyseb

Experience

Image X Institute

Research Engineer

Mar 2026 — Present · Sydney

Building medical imaging tools for radiotherapy — voxel-wise motion modelling for lung cancer treatment planning.

Deep Learning Researcher Intern

Jan 2026 — Mar 2026 · Sydney

Investigated how gantry angle affects VoxelMap’s predicted deformation vector fields, with Dr Nicholas Hindley and Dr Chandrima Sengupta.

HapnX

Co-Founder

Feb 2026 — Present · Sydney

Building 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 · Sydney

Designed and 3D-printed sub-1kg competition sumo robots in Fusion 360.

KPMG India

Analyst — Cloud Security

Jul 2024 — Sep 2024 · Hyderabad

Threat analysis for international clients inside Digital Trust.

Intern — Cyber Risk & Cloud Security

Jan 2024 — Jul 2024 · Hyderabad

Proposals and base research for cloud-security and cyber-risk engagements.

Samsung India

PRISM Developer

Jan 2023 — Aug 2023 · Bengaluru

Researched and built a static gesture recognition system using UWB sensing.

Origon Systems and Traders

Technical Consultant

Jul 2021 — Dec 2022 · Chennai

Set up IoT labs at Shiv Nadar University — infrastructure, workshops, and mentorship.

Education

University of Sydney

Master of Computer Science

2025 — 2027

VIT Chennai

B.Tech, Electronics and Communication

2020 — 2024

Selected 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.2024.3508802

ViTaL: 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/2402.17424

Technical 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