✦ Portfolio · Arun Keshav Vaithianathan
ArunVaithianathan
Chemical engineering student at Texas A&M — 3.918 GPA, Craig and Galen Brown Engineering Honors. Researching catalytic graphitization in the lab, leading control systems on the MATE ROV team, co-founding the Aggie Research Finder (3,000+ users), and shooting commercial photography on the side.
Now
Catalytic graphite,
underwater PID,
field photography.
§ 01 — Thesis
Mostpeoplechooseadomain.
Ichosetheseamsbetweenthem.
I'm a chemical engineering student at Texas A&M, but most of what I end up working on sits between three things: materials in a furnace, code on a board, and a camera in my hand. Different scales, same instinct — figure out how the system works, then build something with it.
I tend to move fast on things I want to see exist. A repo, a deploy, a breadboard, a short video — whatever gets the idea out of my head and into something I can show someone.
§ 02 — Current Focus
Research · Engineering · Photography
Research
Catalytic conversion of petroleum coke into battery-grade graphite at the Texas A&M College of Engineering. Material synthesis via high-energy ball milling and iron catalyst integration; XRD characterization.
- Tube furnace 1600 °C
- Fe catalyst
- XRD
Engineering
Control Systems Lead on Oceanus ThinkTank's MATE ROV: closed-loop PID on a Raspberry Pi 5 + BR Navigator stack, live RTSP photogrammetry into RealityKit. Co-founder of the Aggie Research Finder.
- Python · ArduSub
- Pi 5 + Navigator
- Next.js · Vercel
Photography
Commercial photography commissions since 2020 — brand, portrait, event, product, landscape. Plus a self-hosted YouTube channel (2.2k subscribers, 1M+ views) covering Python, Linux, and hardware.
- 80+ client shoots
- 1M+ YouTube views
- Editorial color
§ 03 — Outside the lab
Photographycommissions
since2020.
Texas Exchange for Energy & Climate Entrepreneurship fellow at Greentown Labs. Cohort member in the Aggies in Tech program at the Mays Business School. Spent four years programming for FRC Pearadox 5414 — three trips to the FRC World Championship.
§ 04 — Selected Work
Selectedcasestudies.
§ 06 — Reach