Arushi Kapurwan

Software Development Engineer
MathWorks

​Arushi is a Software Development Engineer at MathWorks in the Simscape product family enabling the users to model and simulate multidomain physical systems in the Simulink environment. She plays a major role in advancing the user experience of Simscape products by creating new graphical user interfaces as well as supporting and building infrastructure. Since her joining at MathWorks in 2019 within the Engineering development group, she has worked with customers to solve complex technical issues and gained customer perspective along with deep technical knowledge for a variety of MathWorks products.  She holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Electrical Engineering. Prior to joining MathWorks she was a project engineer for two years in Honeywell managing process control and automation for oil and gas industries. 

In the past, Arushi has delivered a WiDS workshop at Worcester Polytechnic Institute right before the pandemic on “Hands on with Deep learning and IoT”. She has also worked with multiple MathWorks workshop in association with National Society of Black Engineers, Black Girls Code, Grace Hopper celebration, Society of Women Engineers, and others. 

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Workshop: Catching Fire: Autonomous Drones to Detect and Track Wildfires
October 26, 2022; 8:00am - 9:00am

Can drones help prevent natural disasters? Wildfires have become highly destructive in recent years, ravaging the environment and human lives. In this hands-on workshop, build a wildfire detection system with autonomous drones. Explore cutting-edge methods to detect fire outbreaks and predict their direction of spread. Gain skills in simulation and AI that you can apply to life-saving problems.

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