2017–18 Dean's award
Dean's Innovation Award
For developing a hybrid VTOL UAV for swarm operations and medical deliveries.
2×won twice
Aseem Saini
Move through the swarm. Click it to change formation.
Electronics engineer
I build unmanned aircraft, medical delivery drones and swarm robotics. Three ventures, a shelf of international awards and 21 countries so far.
About Aseem
I'm Aseem Saini, an electronics engineer who builds unmanned aircraft. Hybrid VTOL drones that deliver medical supplies, fixed-wing platforms for international competitions, multirotor swarms that fly as one. I've co-founded three ventures and travelled to 21 countries along the way. The future belongs to me.
- Countries visited
- 21
- Countries lived in
- 6
- Ventures co-founded
- 3
- Awards and honors
- 7+
Awards and honors
Follow the flight path from 2017 to 2019. More wins are listed underneath it.
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2018 National competition
DST–Lockheed Martin–Tata Trusts IIGP 2.0
Winner of the University Innovation Competition, out of 700 national teams.
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2018 International competition
AUVSI SUAS
8th internationally for the journal paper and flight readiness review submission.
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2018–19 Dean's award
IIITD Cultural Award
The Dean's overall best cultural award, for representing IIIT-Delhi internationally.
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2019 International competition
AUVSI SUAS
6th place out of 72 international teams.
6thof 72 teams
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CanSat
2nd position in the CanSat build and launch competition at Delhi Technological University.
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Indian Air Force swarm competition
Qualified and collaborated in the multi-UAV swarm challenge.
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Sangmyung University
Game development and a professional competition in Seoul, South Korea.
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Mahindra Football League
Qualified, won matches and took home official Mahindra merchandise and awards.
Three ventures from zero
One idea runs through all of them: let machines take on the dangerous or impossible part of the job.
NETBOTS
Robotics
Co-founded to push autonomous robotics and drone systems out of the lab and into the field.
Drone-MED
Medical delivery
Drone-based delivery built to get critical medical supplies where roads and traffic can't.
UAS-IIITD
Aerospace education
Built the unmanned aerial systems program at IIIT-Delhi from the ground up, training the next generation of UAV builders.
Airdrop using a hybrid UAV
One of my featured projects. A hybrid VTOL aircraft lifts off like a multirotor, flies like a plane, then lowers its payload by parachute at the drop zone. Scrub the timeline to follow a mission.
Mode Vertical lift
Lift Rotors
Payload On board
Concept illustration of how a hybrid VTOL airdrop works. Not a model of a specific airframe.
21 countries and counting
It started in New Delhi, at IIIT. Then Sangmyung University in Seoul pulled me into game development and a different way of building. Twenty-one countries later, the throughline hasn't changed: show up, build something, leave with more questions than I arrived with.
India
New Delhi
Off duty
Games, sketches, RC planes and Ferrari. The things that keep the engineering fun.
Drone Run
Tap, click or press Space to flap. Every press is a jump. Thread the towers.
Game development
A season at Sangmyung University in Seoul turned game development into a lasting habit. This is a tiny game built for this page. Try to beat your best.
RC aircraft and flight sims
Same obsession as the day job, minus the paperwork.
Motorsport
Formula 1 devotee. Ferrari, specifically, for better or worse.
Digital art
Occasional character sketches for when the CAD software gets old.
Let's build something
Open to collaborations, new roles and good conversations about aircraft, robotics and games.