AI & Robotics Engineer · Incoming PhD @ KTH · Stockholm
Bota Duisenbay
AI & robotics engineer with hands-on experience in autonomous drone systems, computer vision, and document intelligence — incoming PhD student at the KTH Neuro Computing Systems Lab as an MSCA scholar within the ELEVATE consortium.
Salem! I'm an AI & robotics engineer with experience across field robotics, computer vision, and applied machine learning. I'm joining the Neuro Computing Systems Lab at KTH Royal Institute of Technology as a PhD student and MSCA scholar within the ELEVATE consortium — a direction I'm genuinely excited to grow into, focusing on neuromorphic computing and event-based vision.
Most recently I was a Research Fellow at ISTC CNR (Italian National Research Council) in Rome, where I deployed autonomous drones for precision agriculture — working on real-time mapping, mission planning, and sensor fusion with RGB and LiDAR.
Before CNR, I was an AI Engineer at Botshelf.ai, building production document understanding pipelines that combined OCR, layout analysis, and large language models. Earlier, at Nazarbayev University, I worked on robotic manipulation and perception using the UR10 arm and an RGBD camera.
My broader interests are in perception, autonomous systems, and how AI can make robots more capable in unstructured environments. For collaborations or a chat — reach out anytime.
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MSc in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
Sapienza University of Rome
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BSc in Robotics & Mechatronics
Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Experience & Interests
Autonomous Drone Systems
Deployed UAVs for open-field agricultural missions at CNR — real-time mapping, mission planning, and LiDAR/RGB sensor fusion.
Computer Vision
Object detection, depth estimation, and perception pipelines using RGB, depth, and point cloud data. Experience with ROS and onboard inference.
Document Intelligence
Built production pipelines at Botshelf.ai combining OCR, layout analysis, and LLMs for structured document understanding.
Robotic Manipulation
Worked with UR10 arm and RGBD camera on perception-driven manipulation tasks at Nazarbayev University.
Neuromorphic Computing
Incoming PhD focus as MSCA scholar within ELEVATE — event-based vision and spiking neural networks at the KTH Neuro Computing Systems Lab.
Tools & Stack
Python, PyTorch, ROS/ROS2, OpenCV, PCL, Docker. Comfortable with Linux, Git, and working close to hardware.
News
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Joining KTH Royal Institute of Technology — Stockholm New Role
Starting a PhD in the Neuro Computing Systems (NCS) Lab at KTH, part of the MSCA ELEVATE Doctoral Network. Looking forward to digging into neuromorphic computing and event-based vision.
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Reviewer of the Month — Nature Communications Engineering Award
Honored to be nominated as Reviewer of the Month for February 2026 (together with Vito Trianni) for contributing peer review to Nature Communications Engineering.
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Research Visit — University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Month-long research visit to the UAS Center at SDU, presenting ongoing work on precision agriculture with autonomous drones.
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IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems — Prague
Attended the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Summer School on MRS, focusing on autonomous multi-drone coordination.
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IAS-19 Conference — Genoa, Italy
Presented research at the Special Session on Field Robotics Empowered by AI, Aula Magna, IAS-19.
Contact
Let's connect
Open to research collaborations, project conversations, and opportunities in robotics, computer vision, and autonomous systems.