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Founding robotics engineer

Terrafirma

• Founding robotics engineer with complete ownership of the robotics stack - state estimation, controls, motion planning, and perception.
• Implemented extended kalman filters and optimization based calibration techniques from scratch for state estimation of excavators, bulldozers, rollers, etc within ±3 cm
• Implemented a generalized motion planner for autonomous excavation and dozing, given a site civil plan.
• Architected a 3D lidar pipeline for terrain mapping.
• Integrated a deep learning based camera-lidar fusion pipeline for human detection.

Robotics Engineer II

Bastian Solutions - Toyota advanced logistics company

• ROS agnostic C++ library for LIDAR feature extraction with ROS1 and ROS2 interfaces.
• Dynamic collision detection.
• One click RGB, and Depth camera extrinsic calibration.
• Autonomous bin picking using moveit

Robotics Engineer Intern

Pickle Robot Company

• Motion planning and segmentation for autonomous truck unloading using Kuka KR70 robotic arm.
• Resolve grasp failing issues and system level analysis of path planning stack; simulation using pybullet

Graduate Research Assistant

MIT - Mechatronics Research Lab

• Probabilistic human motion prediction using Gaussian Process Regression
• Multi camera human pose detection using mmpose
• UR5 robot motion planning using Moveit framework
• Successfully made a robot arm navigate around a dynamic human arm.

MS

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A

Mechanical Engineering

• Autonomy and Decision Making
• Deep Learning
• Control Theory
• Dynamics

BS

The University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A

Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science

• Engineering Projects in Community Service
• System Dynamics and Controls
• Machine Learning
• Intro. to AI
• Statics, Dynamics, Design of Mechanical Systems
• C++, Java, and Python

MIT MechE Grace H. Chang and Peter K. Mansfield Fellowship

MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

Fellowship that covers research and tuition costs as a graduate student.

MIT 2.12 Intro. to Robotics - Most Valuable Engineer Award

MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

Awarded as the most valuable engineer contributor for 2.12 INtro to Robotics course taught at MIT.

2021 Undergraduate Research Scholar Award

UT Dallas Office of Undergraduate Education

2021 research scholar award for my undergraduate research on risk bounded non linear robot motion planning and control.

2020 Undergraduate Research Scholar Award

UT Dallas Office of Undergraduate Education

2020 research scholar award for my undergraduate research on cost analysis and design of wind turbine blades.

1st Place at UT Dallas Hack AI

UT Dallas

1st place at Hack AI for a fraud detection website to test if a given company entity is legitimate or fraudulent.

Volunteer

My Possibilities - Engineering Projects for Community Service

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Development of User-Friendly Design-Driven Techno-Economic Modeling Tool to Enable Reductions in Wind Blade Manufacturing Costs.

SAMPE journal

Fast and Modular Autonomy Software for Autonomous Racing Vehicles

Journal of Field Robotics

Enhanced Human-Robot Collaboration using Constrained Probabilistic Human-Motion Prediction

Arxiv and MIT DSpace

Risk bounded nonlinear robot motion planning with integrated perception & control

Science Artificial Intelligence Journal

Autonomous Excavator

Drawing Robot

Robotic Submarine

Design Build Fly