Manan Arora
About

I’m Manan, an AI engineer and researcher doing my MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Manan sitting cross-legged in mid-water on a scuba dive, bubbles rising above himManan smiling on a canyon hike, red cliffs and a river behind him
Out on a canyon hike.Mid-dive, holding very still.

These days I’ve been spending most of my time messing around with reinforcement learning and vision-language models.

I learn best by building, so a lot of what’s here started as a question I wanted to see working for myself. I’d love to give back too, so if there’s any way I can help, my inbox is open :)

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What I’m exploring

How machines perceive, learn, and reason.
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My Experience

A few places I’ve learned, built, and worked.
University of Mumbai logo2019 — 2023University of MumbaiB.Tech · Electronics & Telecommunication
AuxoAI logo2023 — 2025AuxoAIAI Engineer
University of Michigan logo2025 — 2027University of MichiganMS · Electrical & Computer EngineeringSignal processing and machine learning.
University of Michigan logo2025 — presentUMich ResearchAI Researcher
Honeywell logoSummer 2026HoneywellAI Engineering Intern
Open to infinite possibilitiesThe next chapter is still being written.
  1. Open to infinite possibilitiesThe next chapter is still being written.
  2. Honeywell logoSummer 2026HoneywellAI Engineering InternLanguage models for edge AI and multi-agent systems.
  3. University of Michigan logo2025 — presentUMich ResearchAI ResearcherReinforcement learning, VLMs and multimodal learning.
  4. University of Michigan logo2025 — 2027University of MichiganMS · Electrical & Computer EngineeringSignal processing and machine learning.
  5. AuxoAI logo2023 — 2025AuxoAIAI EngineerBuilt retrieval and text-to-SQL systems for an enterprise AI platform.
  6. University of Mumbai logo2019 — 2023University of MumbaiB.Tech · Electronics & TelecommunicationSardar Patel Institute of Technology.