[Curriculum Vitae]

Currently I am a Robotic Software Engineeer in Lab126, Amazon, developing the next generation of interactive home robots. (Yes the one that looks like Wall-E). I work to develop high fidelity simulations for algorithm development. Previously, I was a graduate student at University of Pennsylvania in the Electrical and Systems Engineering department and worked in the domain of General Robotics and Automation.

At Penn, I worked at GRASP lab in the group of Professor Kostas Daniilidis where I was largely involved the exploration of curiosity for learning methods and curious agents as used in computer vision based exploration and multi agent system exploration.

At Penn, I also worked at MLab in the group of Professor Rahul Mangharam in the development of perception pipeline for autonomous vehicles which are tightly integrated with the path planning algorithms. The work was done on 1/10th sized vehicles with Nvidia-Tx2 onboard the vehicle along with a multi-modal sensor suit.

In the past, I have also worked as a motion path planning intern at Robotics Research Center, Hyderabad working towards the development of full scale autonomous vehicles reaching level-3 autonomy. More outlined in the projects and publications section.