Education & Experience
Where I have studied and worked

Experience

  1. Graduate Research Assistant

    University of Maryland

    My projects are widely focused on:

    • Robot Pose Estimation and Control in Low Vibility & GPS-denied environments
    • Imitation Learning-based Robot Navigation
    • Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) for 3D Mapping & Reconstruction

  2. Graduate Teaching Assistant

    University of Maryland

    I am TA for ENME480: Introduction to Robotics, which is offered every fall. I have

    • Designed and organized lab sections of the first course in the robotics minor at UMD, for introduction to Python, ROS/ROS2, Gazebo and hands-on experiments with UR3e robot arm
    • Developed a comprehensive ROS & Gazebo tutorial, and curated weekly studio sessions and assignments
    • Transitioned entire lab course material consisting of ROS packages and instructional material to GitHub and launching a course website soon.
    View GitHub

  3. Research Associate

    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

    Projects:

    • Vision-based Gestural Interaction for a Human Cooperative Multi-Robot System
    • Audio-Visual Navigation for Collaborative Task Execution

Education

  1. Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

    University of Maryland College Park

    Advised by Dr. Nikhil Chopra, Semi-Autonomous Systems Lab. Expected to graduate in 2026.

    Ongoing research on:

    • Nonlinear Observers for Robot Pose Estimation & Control
    • Imitation Learning-based Robot Navigation
    • 3D Mapping and Reconstruction for Shallow Water Environments

  2. B.Tech, Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering

    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras

    Minor in Automation

    Thesis: Seafloor Mapping & Localization For A Multi-Robot System Using Route Optimization Algorithms

    Advisor: Prof. T. Asokan, Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras

    Read Thesis