Bio

A brief bio about me

I’m an aspiring roboticist interested in building intelligent systems capable of reasoning and action. I’m interested in problems ranging from active perception to planning for robotics. Currently, I am a perception software engineer at Aurora Innovation, building perception systems for self-driving trucks, since July 2023.

I graduated from UC San Diego with a masters in Computer Science, specializing in robotics, where I worked on problems related to task planning for robot manipulation and service robotics under Prof. Henrik Christensen.

Before I joined UCSD, I completed my bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from RV College of Engineering (RVCE), India.

For my undergraduate thesis, I worked as an intern at the Robert Bosch Center for Cyber-Physical Systems, Indian Institute of Science (RBCCPS, IISc) under Prof. Raghu Krishnapuram and Prof. Bharadwaj Amrutur, and later continued as a technical associate at RBCCPS. During my time at RBCCPS, I worked on autonomous navigation and robot teleoperation.

During my time at RVCE, I was a member of Project Jatayu, the autonomous UAV team of RVCE, where I also served as the team lead for the SUAS 2019 competition. I primarily worked on the Computer Vision and Communication subsystem, providing perception capabilities to our drone. Here, we represented India among a few other teams in an international UAV competition held in Maryland, USA. This is when I developed an interest in robotics and autonomous navigation in specific, and have been working in this domain since.