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Registration: 01.08.2025

Talha Najaf

Specialization: Aeronautics / Astronautics Engineer
— Aeronautics & Astronautics senior at IST (GPA 3.67) with expertise in Fixed wing/VTOL UAV design, mathematical modeling, and control-systems development. — Hands-on leader in field-based fabrication, flight testing, and real-time simulation—driving projects from concept through on-site deployment.
— Aeronautics & Astronautics senior at IST (GPA 3.67) with expertise in Fixed wing/VTOL UAV design, mathematical modeling, and control-systems development. — Hands-on leader in field-based fabrication, flight testing, and real-time simulation—driving projects from concept through on-site deployment.

Skills

Aeronautical Engineering
UAV
ArduPilot
Simulink
ROS2
MATLAB
C++
Python
Linux
Catia V5
SolidWorks
Arduino

Work experience

Robotic Systems / Robotics Design Engineer
since 09.2024 - Till the present day |NDA
Simulink, Gazebo, ROS2, Ardupilot, Pixhawk 6C
● Conceptual, Preliminary and Detailed Design of the robot. ● Mathematical modelling and Simulation in Simulink and Gazebo (ROS2). ● Avionics and Systems Design of the Hybrid Robot. ● Custom Hybrid Controller Design for the robot using Ardupilot firmware with Pixhawk 6C. ● Fabrication and Implementation of control, including onboard mapping and off board visualization using ROS2 (Current Stage).
UAV Control Systems Engineering Intern
07.2024 - 08.2024 |NaqCoDE Technologies
Simulink, X-Plane, UAV
● Designed and implemented Simulink-based autopilot system for UAV missions, reducing control-tuning time by 25%. ● Integrated real-time flight model visualization in X-Plane, enabling fault-injection testing that uncovered two critical stability issues pre-flight. ● Authored user documentation and trained 3 engineers on Simulink-to-X-Plane integration.
Control Systems Engineering Intern
01.2025 - 02.2025 |Mach Alpha
Simulink, YOLO-V5, UAV
● Collaborated with aerodynamics and structure teams to generate iterative UAV design variants. ● Nonlinear modelling and testing of Aircraft and Missile Systems in Simulink. ● Implemented Computer vision algorithm (YOLO-V5) for dual camera-based target tracking in order to release a launchpad based UAV.

Educational background

Flight Control systems / Flight dynamics and stability / Robotics and Simulation (Bachelor’s Degree)
Till 2025
Institute of Space Technology

Languages

UrduNativeEnglishProficient