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S. Shandilya is an educational technology researcher whose work centers on project-based learning, robotics education, and scalable STEM outreach in India. Most prominently associated with the e-Yantra initiative at IIT Bombay, Shandilya has been instrumental in designing and evaluating the e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC), a nationwide program that delivers hands-on embedded systems and robotics training to engineering students through online, competition-driven pedagogy. Their research demonstrates how large-scale competitions can effectively substitute for traditional laboratory infrastructure, reaching hundreds of student teams across India who might otherwise lack access to qualified mentors or physical robotics labs. With over 40 citations across their most recognized work, Shandilya's contributions have helped establish a replicable model for massively scalable technical education. Beyond competition design, their research extends into intelligent educational systems, including the application of machine learning to automatically tag question difficulty levels in large-scale online assessments — a practical innovation for managing high-volume selection tests. Shandilya's body of work collectively addresses one of India's most pressing engineering education challenges: bridging the gap between theoretical instruction and meaningful, hands-on technical experience at scale.