Keshav Mohta

I am an undergraduate in the Jerome Fisher M&T Program at Penn, studying Electrical Engineering and Statistics.

I want to build robots that can see, decide, and act in the real world on their own. My goal is to use physical systems to provide real value to people’s lives.

At Penn I research autonomous racing in xLAB with Professor Rahul Mangharam, and I founded the RoboRacer @ Penn Club. This past summer at Scout Robotics I worked on autonomous rail inspection, fine-tuning foundation models, building custom architectures, and writing geometric post-processing for segmentation and object detection tasks.

I have built robots since 2017. I captained FRC Team 7539 and won the 2022 World Robot Olympiad.

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Keshav Mohta at the Air India maintenance hangar

Autonomous Racing Research

xLAB and the RoboRacer @ Penn Club · Jan 2026 – present

RoboRacer-mini, a browser playground for the AutoDRIVE simulator, and reinforcement learning for autonomous racing.

  • ROS 2
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Model Predictive Control
  • SLAM
  • Computer Vision
  • NVIDIA Jetson
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Linux

Penn RoboRacer Competition Stack

RoboRacer @ Penn Club · ICRA 2026, IROS 2026

ROS 2 racing stack for the AutoDRIVE RoboRacer Sim-Racing League.

  • ROS 2
  • SLAM
  • Monte-Carlo Localization
  • Raceline Optimization
  • Pure Pursuit
  • Model Predictive Control
  • Docker

Penn Degree Planner

Personal project · 2026

A four-year course planner for Penn, including dual-degree programs. Live at penndegreeplanner.com.

  • Rust
  • Axum
  • Next.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Greedy Algorithms

FRC Team 7539 Elev8

Team captain · 2021 – 2024

FIRST Robotics Competition Team 7539, Elev8, including the 2023 swerve robot Kohinoor.

  • Java
  • WPILib
  • Swerve Drive
  • Computer Vision
  • Team Leadership

World Robot Olympiad

Lead programmer · 2018 – 2022

LEGO Mindstorms, from regional competition through the world championship.

  • LEGO Mindstorms
  • Robot Design
  • Autonomous Control