About Artash
A computer science undergraduate at Stanford, working across autonomous systems, environmental sensing, and scientific computing.
My work has grown from observing the physical world through data to building the systems that can interact with it.
Beginning with observation
Growing up in Toronto, I was drawn to questions that could be investigated directly: what instruments could measure, what patterns data might reveal, and how software could make those patterns understandable. An early project with my father, Vikas Nath, explored environmental monitoring using commercial off-the-shelf technologies. It became a co-authored conference chapter in 2016.
Environmental data as a public tool
During pandemic restrictions, I used seismic recordings to study changes in activity in Canadian cities. MonitorMyLockdown translated the analysis into a public-facing tool without tracking individuals. That work became my Rise project. Ocean acoustics followed: MonitorMyOcean used open hydrophone recordings to investigate how human activity changes the underwater soundscape.
From analysis to physical systems
The ocean work led toward marine-mammal detection and, through You-Oceans, toward hydrophone hardware, telemetry, and drone-deployment prototypes. Scientific volunteering with Natural Resources Canada and participation in the Global Sounds hydrophone working group connected that independent work to collaborative research.
Building at Stanford
I study computer science at Stanford University, where I am co-president of Stanford Student Robotics and co-lead of StanfordUAV. My engineering work connects perception and onboard computing with airframes, flight control, and testing. In 2026, I founded Stanford DroneHacks to give students a shared platform for hands-on aerial autonomy. The first event is scheduled for November 6–8, 2026.
A continuing direction
Across these projects, the recurring question is how technology can help us observe, understand, and act on the physical world. My interests increasingly involve complete systems: connecting scientific methods to useful instruments, and individual prototypes to teams that can build and maintain them.