January 2025

Our paper "Cascade IPG for Underwater Robot State Estimation" is accepted for presentation at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta, USA.

Selected for the Future Faculty Fellowship at UMD, recognizing academic excellence and potential as an educator and researcher. Awarded with a $2000 travel grant as well.

October 2024

Our paper "3D Water Quality Mapping using Invariant Extended Kalman Filtering for Underwater Robot Localization” received Best Paper Award for Best Control Framework for Autonomous Navigation & Control at IROS 2024 Workshop on Autonomous Robotic Systems in Aquaculture in Abu Dhabi, UAE

January 2024

Our paper "UIVNav: Underwater information-driven vision-based navigation via imitation learning" has been accepted for publication at ICRA 2024.

December 2023

Co-presented a webinar on "Water Quality Monitoring and Sensing for Aquaculture with Emerging Technologies" as a part of S3AM Webinar Series

June 2023

Presented my research to First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Indian PM Narendra Modi, and NSF Director Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan at NSF [news article 1] [news article 2] [news article 3]

July 2022

Our paper "Bio-Inspired Vision and Gesture-Based Robot-Robot Interaction for Human-Cooperative Package Delivery" has been published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
It has received extensive media coverage and is the Editor's pick and most viewed article for July 2022.

January 2022

I am starting my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at University of Maryland College Park. I will be advised by Dr. Nikhil Chopra

October 2021

I will be presenting our poster on "Deep Audio-Visual Learning based Action Prediction in a Human-Robot Coordinated Task" at IROS 2021 [abstract] , [poster]

August 2020

Started as a Research Associate at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. I will be working on heterogenous multi-robot corrdination in industrial environments.

July 2020

Graduated from IIT Madras with a B.Tech in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering