CV

PhD - Robotics

Purude University, USA

Bachelors of Technology (Honors) - Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology - Madras

Research Assistant

Purdue University

• Style-guided Robot to Human Coaching
  • Developed a representation for "style" in skill demonstrations.
  • Designed a agent model which provides expert guidance to human collaborators based on their percieved style.
• Human to Robot Coaching by Demonstration
  • Devised and formalized a framework of robot coaching by demonstration based on partially observable Markov decision process.
  • Designed an end-to-end approach to learn contact-rich tasks with few human demonstrations and sparse interactions using deep reinforcement learning, 3D vision and a multi-modal state representation.
• Robots for Infectious Diseases - COVID-19 Patrol Robot
  • Designed and built the Purdue Campus Patrol Robot - a prototype for indoor robotic air filtration, which provides effective and continuous protection in a classroom setting.

Autonomous Racing Team Member

Purdue University

• Created hierarchical fault-tolerant safety system, dynamic planning and control systems for a full-scale autonomous racing IndyCar.

President & Founder

League of Robotic Engineers, Purdue, USA.

• Provided mentoring and hands-on robotics workshops for 30+ undergraduate students from Purdue University, Berea College, and PSGIT-India.

Research Assistant

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India.

Intern

Mercedes Benz Research and Development, India

Intern

Lab Electronics

• Amazon Research Award

• ICON Outstanding Student Research Award