I am a PhD candidate in computer science (robotics) at the University of Southern California (USC), advised by Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme. Broadly, I work on combining planning algorithms with learning to achieve greater autonomy for robots, with experience in object manipulation, control theory, and deep reinforcement learning.
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MSc in Computer Science (Robotics & Perception), 2018
Georgia Tech
MSc in Mechanical Engineering (Control Theory), 2012
University of Texas at Austin
Mechanical Engineering, 2010
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay)
May 2023 I started as a PhD resident at Intrinsic LLC (Alphabet).
Mar 2023: I completed my PhD thesis proposal.
Feb 2023: I am organizing the USC Robotics Seminar (URoS) along with Prof. Somil Bansal, a monthly seminar for all robotics researchers at USC to present and discuss their work.
Oct 2022: I presented our work on learning deformable object manipulation from expert demonstrations at IROS 2022 and the workshop on RObotic MAnipulation of Deformable Objects (ROMADO-SI).
Sep 2022: Two papers will be presented at the Southern California Robotics Symposium 2022.
Jun - Sep 2022: I will be an Applied Scientist intern at Amazon Robotics.
Jun 2022: Our paper on learning deformable object manipulation from expert demonstrations has been accepted to both IEEE RA-L and IEEE IROS 2022. See you in Kyoto! (Website || RA-L link)
May 2022: I presented our work on learning deformable object manipulation from expert demonstrations at the 2nd workshop on deformable object manipulation at ICRA 2022 in Philadelphia. (Website || PDF || Video)
Mar 2021: Our paper on adaptive sampling with POMDPs for environmental monitoring has been accepted to ICRA 2021! (PDF)
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