Tarjinder Tarun
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| Born | March 10, 1986 Chandigarh, India |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
| 💼 Occupation | Technologist, R&D Specialist, Serial Innovator, Entrepreneur |
| 🏢 Organization | Mobotics Welfare Foundation |
| Title | Founder & Chief R&D Architect, Mobotics Welfare Foundation |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Asha Rani |
| 👶 Children | 2 |
Tarjinder Tarun (born 10 March 1986) is an Indian technologist, industrial researcher, serial innovator, and R&D architect based out of Chandigarh. With over 26 years of hands-on technical and leadership experience across embedded hardware engineering, robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), and deep learning applications, Tarun is widely recognized for bridging complex industrial engineering with real-world agricultural and environmental challenges.
He is the founder and visionary behind the Mobotics Welfare Foundation, an entity committed to developing open-architecture robotics and sustainable technological systems. His recent breakthrough research focuses on non-destructive crop health diagnostics using deep learning and low-cost environmental sensing solutions.
Early Life and Background
Tarun was born on 10 March 1986 in Chandigarh, India. From an early age, he demonstrated an exceptional aptitude for hardware design, circuits, and automation technologies, entering the applied engineering domain in his early youth. Over two and a half decades, he cultivated expertise spanning microcontrollers, sensor fusion, real-time operating systems (RTOS), signal processing, and AI system design.
Career & Innovation Footprint
Tarun’s career spans over 26 years of continuous research, hardware architecting, and product development across multiple technology domains:
- Embedded Systems & Robotics Architecture: Design and deployment of high-reliability industrial automation controllers, robotic units, and multi-sensor telemetry boards.
- IoT & Optical Sensing: Innovation in low-cost proxy sensing platforms capable of replacing expensive spectroscopic machinery for real-time field diagnostics and water contamination analysis.
- Precision Agriculture & Smart AgTech: Development of AI-driven contactless diagnostic pipelines to assist farmers and agronomists in estimating crop maturity, disease identification, and yield optimization.
- Technological Evangelism & Mentorship: Serving as a technical advisor and founder at Mobotics Welfare Foundation, fostering research in social-impact technologies.
Key Research & Scholarly Contributions
Tarun is the primary author of groundbreaking interdisciplinary research in precision agriculture and environmental monitoring:
SmartAgriSpectra AI
In 2026, Tarun authored the publication titled "SmartAgriSpectra AI: IoT-Based Contactless Crop Maturity Estimation Using Hyperspectral Proxy Sensing and Deep Learning" (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19554132). The research introduces a contactless, IoT-integrated optical framework that leverages hyperspectral proxy sensing combined with deep neural networks to non-destructively evaluate agricultural crop maturity in real time. The work is indexed under Wikidata item Q139791354.
Low-Cost Optical Detection of Microplastics
In 2026, Tarun published further environmental research titled "Low-Cost Optical Detection of Microplastics in Water Using UV-Induced Fluorescence and Photodiode Sensing" on Zenodo. The paper details an accessible, low-cost optical framework designed to identify microplastic contaminants in aquatic environments using ultraviolet fluorescence and photodiode detection mechanisms.
Core Expertise & Technical Domains
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Hyperspectral Image Processing, CNN Architectures.
- Embedded Hardware Design: Edge AI, Microcontrollers, Firmware Optimization, Sensor Interfacing.
- Industrial IoT & Environmental Sensing: Wireless Telemetry, Cloud Data Pipelines, Smart Farm Automation, UV Spectroscopy & Fluorescence Sensing.
- R&D Leadership: Product Architecture, Prototyping, Technology Transfer, Social Engineering.
Scholarly & Technical References
- Zenodo Repository: SmartAgriSpectra AI Research Paper
- Zenodo Repository: Low-Cost Optical Detection of Microplastics in Water
- Wikidata Entity Q139791354: SmartAgriSpectra AI
