Experience

  1. Research Assistant

    IIIT Hyderabad

    Responsibilities include:

    • Working under Dr Madhava Krishna at RRC (Robotics Research Center) at IIIT Hyderabad
    • Implemented a path planner for an autonomous wheelchair for navigating in crowded environments using generative AI (VQ-VAE and PixelCNN) with a novel sampling optimiser which improved efficiency by 40% compared to state of the art learning based approaches.
  2. SURGE Research Intern

    IIT Kanpur

    Responsibilities include:

    • Guided by Dr. Tushar Sandhan and Mr. Prem Raj at Intelligent System Control Lab, IIT Kanpur
    • Contributed to a human robot collaboration project using imitation learning with UR5 collaborative robot and Intel RealSense camera for the collaborative action of heavy object lifting with an efficiency of 68% compared to reinforcement learning approaches.
    • Was one among 42 students selected under the institute project funded category at the IIT Kanpur
  3. Robotics System Validation Intern

    Unbox Robotics

    Responsibilities include:

    • Developed on a project to automate the testing of the web page used for controlling robots using webdriver.io and JavaScript, Docker and deployed it on GitLab CI/CD pipeline, which improved validation teams’ testing efficiency by 20%.

Education

  1. B.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering

    Vellore Institute of Technology
    GPA: 8.83/10.0
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Python
Machine Learning
Docker
Hobbies
Meditation
Dogs/Cats
Photography
Awards
Seed Grant (1.5 Lakh rs)
VIT Vellore ∙ August 2024
Won a seed grant of Rs 1.5 lakh ($1790) from VIT faculty-student sponsored project fund for a medical assistive robot project under Dr. Budhaditya Bhattacharyya at Advance Digital Signal Processing Lab as a part of my final year project
Languages
100%
English
75%
Hindi
25%
German
50%
Bengali