Aufar Laksana

Research Interests

Update 2021: I have had a sudden inspiration to work with drones again, and will be building a drone from scratch using 3D printed parts throughout the UK lockdowns.

Update 2020: I've suddenly had an interest in Natural Language Processing. I'm currently studying some courses (CS224N) to get a better understanding. Will be working on some fun NLP side projects in parallel.

• Mobile Robotics (Self-driving Cars/Drones).
• Computer Vision (Human detection/body pose estimation).
• Augmented Reality.

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant for EE2-12: Software Engineering 2 for the 2018-2019 Academic Year

Projects

• Final Year Project: Augmented Reality-assisted Human Robot Interaction.
  • People and Head Detection: YOLO CrowdHuman (The most popular repository from my thesis)
• First Year Group Project: FPGA Pong/Brick Breaker Game.
• Stay tuned!!!

Technical Skills

• Programming Languages:
  • Python. (My go-to language these days)
  • C/C++. (Mainly for hardware interaction and robotics)
  • C# (Primarily for UWP and Unity).
• Software Engineering. (Not the best, but decent enough to land a job, I guess)
• Machine Learning
  • Interested in Data Science, so the usual EDA, Data Wrangling, Modelling stuff everyone else puts on their resumes.
  • Computer Vision (Object Detection and Tracking, CNNs applied to CV, GANs for image generation).
  • NLP (WIP).
• Robotics Related:
  • ROS (Robotic Operating System).
  • Simulation & Modelling. (MATLAB, Gazebo, Unity).
  • Unity.
  • Electronics & Embedded Systems.

About Me

• Location: London
• I am very active within the Indonesian (Student) Community in London
  • I was on the Indonesian Society committee at Imperial College London for 2 years.
  • After graduating, I joined the Young Indonesian Professionals Association as the Mentorship Director. I stepped down in January 2022
• I enjoy musicals and theatre. My ultimate goal in London is to have seen at least all the mainstream West End shows.
  • My favourite musical has to be Hamilton.
  • Dear Evan Hansen is a close second, along with Phantom of the Opera.
  • Fun Fact: I fell asleep in The Lion King, not because it was bad, but I was tired after a 9-6 day at Uni.
• I once acted in a musical/production Indonight 2019.
  • There are probably videos and pictures somewhere on the internet of this once in a lifetime spectacle. I'll add a few pictures when I find them. Checkout the gallery.

The Gallery

Post University

University Days