Aisorya Bhandari is a Software Engineer who graduated from the University of Ottawa in 2024 with an Honours degree in Computer Science, specializing in entrepreneurship. For her Honours project, she collaborated with CRAiEDL to configure a driving simulator for research on the ethics of autonomous vehicles. As part of the project, she set up a driving simulator using CARLA (an open-source autonomous driving simulator) and customized scenarios with Python, Unreal Engine, and RoadRunner. The primary goal of the project was to establish the simulator as a tool for research in the ethics of autonomous vehicles.
Currently, Aisorya is a full-time Software Engineer at Manulife. Her previous internships include SWE roles at Wealthsimple and RBC. She is passionate about tech journalism, ethics in modern AI, and advancing her expertise as a software engineer, particularly within the FinTech industry. Outside of work, she enjoys running and is currently training for her 3rd half marathon. Her dream is to one day qualify for the Boston Marathon.