I am a robotics researcher working on robot estimation, autonomy and control. I received my PhD from Georgia Tech under the guidance of Frank Dellaert at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, where I was also affiliated with the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. My research goal is to build robotic systems that reason probabilistically under uncertainty over geometry to enable efficient and reliable autonomy in the real world. While my primary focus is currently on state estimation, I work on multiple areas of robotics such as Optimal and Learning based Control, Perception and Human Robot Interaction. Along with being a researcher, I take great pride in developing useable and reliable systems that put our work into practice.
I received my Masters degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech
where my thesis was on Visual Attribute Labeling. I was advised by Dr. James Hays and collaborated with the incredible Dr. Genevieve Patterson. Other projects of mine included enabling robots to track industrial
parts in real time, industrial robot drivers to make working with them
easier, and building online tools to enable and help student teaming.
For my efforts, I received the 2017 Marshall D. Williamson Fellowship for
outstanding 2nd year MSCS student at Georgia Tech.
I completed my Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from
NIT Surat where I was president
of the ACM Chapter, growing the club to over 200 student members, and co-Chief
Editor of the college newsletter Renesa with the uber talented pair of Kailasham Ramalingam and Swethan Jasty.
Professionally, I have spent time at Skydio, and the IHMC Robotics lab, as well as a previous stint at Microsoft Corp's Hyderabad office, where I contributed to the Bing search engine and Enterprise Volume Licensing pipeline.
In my spare time, I enjoy reading, basketball, music, and hacking. Do check out my blog for my latest musings, where I try to elucidate some non-trivial science and tech into regular tea-time reading.