Ari Stehney ☕️

About Me

Ari is an undergraduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His interests include machine learning, robotics, and the general integration of hardware and software. He has worked around the US developing products and researching technologies in the fields of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and remote sensing. He is also a professional UAV pilot with multiple national championship titles.

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Interests
  • Hardware Design & Electronics
  • Drone Technology & UAV Systems
  • Embedded Systems Programming
  • Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing
  • Computer Vision & ML
  • Robotics & Autonomous Systems
Education
  • B.S. Computer Engineering (in progress)

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • High School Diploma

    Ideaventions Academy for Math and Science

Background

“To ask the right question is harder than to answer it."
—George Cantor, German mathematician

I’m a Computer Engineering student at Georgia Tech with a life-long love for building products that benefit from tight integration of hardware and software. From custom flight controllers and UAV platforms to embedded interpreters and edge-ML systems, I like to create technology that feels like magic for the end user through interdisciplinary engineering skills.

Through research, hands-on internships, personal projects, and independent consulting, I have cultivated deep expertise in low-level embedded programming across and hands-on experience designing multi-layer PCBs optimized for real-world manufacturing constraints. Outside of work, I race drones competitively and lead others through the prototyping process as a makerspace instructor, strengthening my skills and helping open the world of engineering to all students.

Research and Papers
(2025). EmberVision: Visual early Fire-detection sensor with Machine Learning on Microcontrollers. Ideaventions Academy for Mathematics and Science.
(2024). Interpreted Language Environment for IoT Devices. Simons Summer Research Symposium.