Experience

PhD Research Assistant · Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Legible MPPI-based navigation, human motion prediction, and large-scale social navigation datasets. More

Research Assistant · Singapore

Diffusion-based planning with temporal-logic constraints on a Unitree Go2, and LLM-driven scenario generation for testing social navigation. More

Robotics and Computer Vision Intern · Bangalore, India

Trajectory planning for 3D face scanning with a robot arm, and ground-truth head pose estimation with ArUco markers. More

Research Intern (Bachelor's thesis) · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Control of a legged-wheeled robot (DARPA), on-orbit manipulation (Northrop Grumman), and 3D perception for search and rescue (NSF). More

Research Intern · Chennai, India

Face and skin detection for camera-based cardiac monitoring (remote PPG). More

Robotics Intern · Bangalore, India

Synthetic training data generation in Blender and 3D surface reconstruction for warehouse robots. More