Hi, I'm

SalsabeelKobattey

I design circuits, write the firmware, and debug them until they behave.

Electronics & Communication Engineer, working in embedded systems, digital design, FPGA and robotics.

Salsabeel Kobattey
04
roles & internships
03
months, research intern
8.48
CGPA / 10
2027
graduating

Final-year ECE. Open to embedded, FPGA & robotics roles from Jul 2027. Bhatkal, Karnataka.

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10 builds

Robotics, FPGA, IoT, embedded control, machine learning and repair. Each one opens to the full case.

Vision-Guided Robotic Arm 01 Robotics & Vision 2025 Vision-Guided Robotic Arm A 5-DOF arm that finds the object instead of being told where it is. PythonOpenCVArUcoInverse kinematics Quick look
Crop Advisory System 02 IoT & Embedded 2026 Crop Advisory System An ESP32 field node that texts a paddy farmer when the field needs attention. ESP32FastAPISQLiteSMS Quick look
Verilog LCD Driver 03 FPGA & Digital Design 2025 Verilog LCD Driver An HD44780 character display driven straight from a Spartan-6, with no processor in the loop. VerilogFSMXilinx ISESpartan-6 Quick look
Reactor Modelling: ANN, LSTM & CNN 04 Machine Learning 2026 Reactor Modelling: ANN, LSTM & CNN Three neural networks against three simple baselines, on three lab recordings. PyTorchLSTMCNNSystem identification Quick look

How I debug

I find the fault that was missed, and fix the cause instead of the symptom.

the delay that was missing 1.52 ms

Every command in the FPGA display driver had been given the same 50 µs settle window. Clear Display needs 1.52 ms, about forty times longer. That is why the first characters of a line would sometimes vanish.

From: Verilog LCD Driver
R² from predicting nothing changes 0.98

On our reactor data, a model that just says "the temperature stays the same" already scores R² above 0.98. The reactor heats slowly and we sample every half second. So a high score meant very little, and I judged every neural network against that no-change baseline instead.

From: Reactor Modelling: ANN, LSTM & CNN
software failsafes trusted 0

A tank controller can always be wrong: one bad echo, one loose wire, and the software is confidently flooding a room. So I plumbed the overflow to drain away from the electronics. If the code gets it wrong, the water still ends up somewhere harmless.

From: Ultrasonic Water-Level Controller
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Experience

Sep 2026 - Present
Teaching, Workshops, Community
President
AITM IoT Club, Anjuman Institute of Technology and Management
  • Named first president of the IoT Club when the ECE department launched it. The launch was covered in local press.
  • Main coordinator of Arduino 101, the club's first workshop: two batches of about 30 first-year students, working in pairs on sensors and circuits.
  • Rated 4.48/5 overall across 56 feedback responses, and 4.75/5 for the help students got when a circuit didn't work.
Jul 2026 - Present
Machine learning, Control systems, FPGA
Research Intern
Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT Manipal)
  • Surveying deployment of physics-informed neural networks to FPGA hardware: fixed-point quantisation, tensor compression against limited LUT, DSP and BRAM budgets, and the High-Level Synthesis path from a trained network to RTL.
  • Leading a team of six modelling a jacketed stirred-tank reactor: ANN, LSTM and CNN models compared against persistence, linear and ARX baselines on three lab recordings.
  • Showed that predicting no change already reaches R² 0.98 on this data, and that no network beat a linear fit by more than about 0.002 °C.
Jun - Jul 2026
Firmware, Soldering, Closed-loop control
Embedded / IoT Intern
Adsafe Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru
  • Built the controller for a Smart Mushroom Grow Box on an ESP8266: temperature, humidity and air-quality sensing driving a Peltier cooler, fans and an ultrasonic humidifier under hysteresis-based setpoint control.
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  • Wrote the firmware and control logic, assembled and hand-soldered the hardware, then tested and debugged the whole system end to end. Working prototype delivered in a 14-day sprint (30 Jun - 13 Jul 2026).
  • IoT environmental monitoring: a local OLED readout plus a Wi-Fi dashboard served from the board.
  • Other project details remain confidential at the company's request.
2024 - Present
Board-level diagnosis, Rework
Freelance Electronics Repair & PC Building
Self-employed
  • Diagnosed and repaired 10+ consumer devices at board level with a multimeter and oscilloscope: PCs, gaming controllers, displays and home electronics.
  • Upgraded an Xbox Series X controller to TMR joystick modules, so the drift can't come back.

Beyond the lab

I run the college IoT Club, and most of what it does is get first-years building their first circuits.

Teaching a room of students with an IR sensor slide on screen
Teaching the IR sensor module to first-year students at Arduino 101.
Standing beside the Arduino 101 Workshop title slide, kits stacked on the table
Opening Arduino 101, the IoT Club's first workshop. Two batches of about 30, on 16 and 17 Sep 2026.
Speaking at a podium with the AITM crest
Speaking at the launch of the AITM IoT Club, where I was named its first president.
Three people holding copies of the Texplore magazine
Releasing Texplore, the department magazine, at the IoT Club launch.
A workshop slide showing an HC-SR04 distance alarm circuit
One of the build exercises at Arduino 101: an HC-SR04 distance alarm.
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Teaching the IR sensor module to first-year students at Arduino 101.

From 56 feedback responses4.48/5overall4.75/5for help when a circuit didn't work80%would recommend it

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About

Final-year Electronics and Communication Engineering student, and a research intern at Manipal Institute of Technology working on neural networks on FPGA hardware. What I enjoy most is the part where the hardware pushes back: a timing limit, a pin that can't drive what you hoped, and working out a way around it.

Education

B.E. Electronics & Communication Engineering
Anjuman Institute of Technology and Management, Bhatkal
Visvesvaraya Technological University · 2023 - 2027
CGPA 8.48 / 10 · Minor in Business Administration
Microcontrollers, Digital System Design using Verilog, Control Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing, Digital Communication
Pre-University (PCMC)87.8%
Anjuman Pre-University College, Bhatkal · 2023
ICSE, Class X88.7%
New Shams School, Bhatkal · 2021

Skills

Languages5
C, C++, Python, Verilog, MATLAB
Embedded7
Arduino / AVR, ESP8266, ESP32, I²C, UART, PWM, ADC
FPGA5
Verilog RTL, FSM design, Testbenches, Xilinx ISE, Spartan-6
Robotics & ML8
OpenCV, ArUco, Inverse kinematics, ROS2, Gazebo, PyTorch, scikit-learn, FastAPI
Hardware4
Soldering & rework, Fault isolation, Oscilloscope, 3D printing
Tools6
Linux, Git, Keil, Multisim, Solid Edge, LaTeX

Leadership

  • Placed in inter-college robotics, sustainability, debate and interview events; 89/100 in the first stage of a national robotics competition (ROS2/Gazebo).
  • Commissioned by the ECE department to build event hardware, and selected by faculty to present department projects.
  • Secretary of Innovation at Technovate, the ECE student forum; represented the department at Mangaluru Technovanza 2026.
  • Mentors juniors on Arduino and ESP32, has taught science to school children, and is certified in PCB design and fabrication.
  • Team lead on three team projects, including a six-person research team at MIT Manipal.

Tell me what you're building.

Looking for internships and graduate roles in embedded systems, digital design and robotics. Based in Karnataka, open to relocating.

Hubzero: Startup I co-founded