▲ vedant bahadur

Hi. I'm a |

EE & Materials Engineering student at Michigan. I've worked on ML pipelines for solar cell discovery, embedded firmware for a solar race car, IoT platforms deployed in the field, and operational software for the Singapore Air Force. Drawn to hard problems at the edge of what's possible, wherever they live.

StackPythonC++PyTorchTensorFlowFlutterFirebaseDFT / HPCSTM32
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University of Michigan
exp. 2028
B.S. Electrical Engineering & Materials Science
Dean's Honor ListBranstrom Freshman Prize
ENG 100: Intro to Rocket Science · Proof-based Linear Algebra · Data Structures (C++)

Experience

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NUS
Research Intern
Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials, NUS
2025
SAF
Software Developer
Republic of Singapore Air Force, RAiD
2024
SAF
Air Traffic Controller Trainee
Republic of Singapore Air Force
2023 – 2024
A*
Independent Researcher
A*STAR, mentored by Dr. Jarvis Loh
2022 – 2023
A*
Research Intern
A*STAR IHPC, mentored by Dr. Jarvis Loh
2021

Projects

Embedded
Michigan Solar Car — BMS Firmware
Embedded C++ firmware for the Battery Management System on a competitive solar race car.
C++EmbeddedSTM32I2C
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ML Research
Generative Models from Scratch
GANs and DDPM diffusion models in PyTorch — no high-level libraries, trained on MNIST and CelebA.
PyTorchDiffusionGANsPython
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Product
Lumenol
Solo-built full-stack Flutter platform for student creativity. #35 Singapore App Store (Education).
FlutterFirebaseFigmaCloud Functions
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Product
GrowLah!
IoT hydroponics social enterprise with TCS, deployed at schools and Singapore Science Centre.
FlutterReactJSESP32TensorFlowFirebase
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Mobile
ChartScan
iOS app converting physical whiteboard brainstorms to digital diagrams via computer vision.
SwiftCoreMLARKitFirebase
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Product
AWS BuildOn 2020
Semi-finalist. Silver Lion — social health app combating elderly isolation and misinformation during COVID-19.
SwiftAWS
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Mobile / AR
Zero Kelvin
AR smart glasses that project a virtual sports court and auto-umpire ball tracking. Built in Swift at age 14.
SwiftARKitVisionKitCoreMLOpenCV
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Hardware
Arduino Drone
Self-built quadcopter for MakerFaire 2017. Researched, sourced, and assembled every part from scratch at age 12.
Arduino 101C++ElectronicsMakerFaire
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Research

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Chemical Potential Energy Surface Mapping

AI4X 2026 (submitted)Paper in preparation
NUS Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials, 2025

Automated single-ended saddle-point framework using k-HiSD with D4FT/Psi4. Discovered 3 new minima and 20 novel transition states on the formic acid system. Tracked across 2,500+ runs via WandB.

Computational ChemistryNetworkXD4FTPsi4WandB

ML Screening of Perovskite Solar Cell Materials

Independent research
A*STAR, mentored by Dr. Jarvis Loh, 2022 – 2023

DFT-free ML pipeline for HOIP screening. Neural network with Bayesian Optimisation on 1,300+ structures (R2 = 0.801). Narrowed 1,200+ candidates to 7 high-priority experimental targets.

TensorFlowBayesian OptimisationHyperoptRDKit

Latent Chemical Space for Property Prediction

Internship research
A*STAR IHPC, mentored by Dr. Jarvis Loh, 2021

Structured latent chemical space via UMAP embeddings and Gaussian Mixture Model clustering on QM9 and Lipophilicity datasets for geometry-aware molecular property prediction.

UMAPGMMscikit-learnRDKit

Beyond the Screen

Mountain landscape

I grow most when I'm outside my comfort zone, whether that's backpacking to Annapurna Base Camp, entering a new technical domain with no prior experience, or volunteering for leadership roles in the military. Physical intensity gives my mind space to reset and recharge. The same drive that takes me up mountains is what takes me into hard problems.

Classical Guitar
Classical Guitar
Trinity College London, Grade 8
Badminton
Badminton
U19 SEASAC Winner, Player of the Year 2022
Mountaineering
Mountaineering
Mt. Fuji, Mt. Kinabalu, Annapurna Base Camp
Squash
Squash
Michigan Club

Contact

Let's work together.

Open to research collaborations, internships, and interesting problems. Currently looking for Summer 2026 roles.

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