About Me

I am currently pursuing Master’s in Robotics at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. I have always been fascinated by the ability of humans to move intelligently. In Robotics, the areas of Control and Navigation in complex dynamic environments are of most interest to me. I am mainly interested in Human-Robot interaction, specially in the context of social navigation and strategies to enable robot to work in close proximity of humans.

I did my undergrad from Bits Pilani, K.K Birla Goa Campus with B.E in Electronics and Instrumentation. During my Bachelor’s thesis at Biorobotics Lab, CMU, I worked on control of a Hybrid Legged-Wheel Robot for carrying heavy loads on vertical environments. I also worked on 3D reconstruction and registration of Miami surfside collapse data using SFM techniques. I was advised by Prof Howie Choset and Prof Robin Murphy

I previously worked as a Research Assistant at CLeaR Lab in National University of Singapore under the guidance of Prof Harold Soh where I worked on the problem of social navigation using legged robots. I worked on demonstrating a Diffusion based global planner for staisfying LTL constraints on Unitree Go2 robot. I also worked on creating a simulation tool for autonomously creating scenarios and benchmarking social navigation algorithims using LLMs.

During my undergraduate studies, I worked on implementing Model Predictive Control with feedback linearization on robot manipulators with Dr. Rakesh Warier. I also worked with Dr. Amit Setia on Optimal control using B-splines for trajectory planning and obstacle avoidance.

I previously also worked at Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CEERI), Mercedez-Benz Research and Development India(MBRDI) and Mowito Robotics