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My interests in robotics started during undergrad through a student team called Edhitha, focused on autonomous aerial systems. Then I got to deploy robots to the real world at Niqo Robotics and finally moved soon after to the US for my Master's in Robotic Systems Development at Carnegie Mellon University.
Education
In 2024, I earned my Master’s in Robotic Systems Development (MRSD) from Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in Computer Vision.
Current Work
I currently work at Intuitive Surgical on ML and computer vision for navigation and guidance in surgical robots. I work on 3D Reconstruction (Gaussian Splatting, NeRFs), Detection and Classification, and Monocular Depth Estimation.
Previous Work
Niqo Robotics
I worked at Niqo Robotics as a robotics engineer on argicultural robots. This was a super hands-on role where I got to develop the systems as well as see it through deployment on remote farms across the country. I primarily worked on computer vision (detection and depth estimation) as well as TensorRT optimization.
Magna International
This was my 2023 summer internship in Detroit where I worked on sensor fusion (fusing camera and radar) for L2 ADAS features in cars. It was a nice real-life learning on EKFs in an optimized C++ codebase.
Research & Extra-Curriculars
In grad school I did some part-time research at Kantor Lab within CMU’s Field Robotics Center, working on Robotics for Agriculture. I worked on a robotic grapevine pruning project involving 3D skeletonization of grapevine pointclouds for pruning weight estimation.
During undergrad I lead a student robotics team called Edhitha which has continuously taken part at the AUVSI SUAS competition held at Maryland, USA. We finished 5th amongst 60 international teams in 2016.
