Professional Experience

Academic and Industry Positions

PhD Research Intern, Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA Research

May 2025 - Present
Santa Clara, CA

Working on exciting research on safety evaluations for AVs with NVIDIA Research!

Terminal Graduate Student

Stanford University

Jan 2025 - Present
Stanford, CA

Student of New Faculty in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University where I am advised by Prof. Somil Bansal as a part of the Safe and Intelligent Autonomy Lab.

Aug 2020 - Present
Los Angeles, CA

Research Focus: Advancing safe decision-making of robotic systems using control theory, planning, and machine learning as part of the Safe and Intelligent Autonomy Lab

KEY RESEARCH AREAS:

  • Safety Monitoring for Robots with Complex Perception Enabled Systems
  • Detection and Mitigation of Failures for Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems
  • Provably Safe Controller Designs for Autonomous Robots

Graduate Student Research Assistant

Bipedal Robot Laboratory

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

May 2019 - Aug 2020
1 yr 4 mos

Project: Designed Deep Neural Network for LiDAR-based Detection of Visual Fiducial scans achieving 99.82% accuracy (1% improvement over state-of-the-art) under Prof. Jessy Grizzle.

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS:

  • Processed over 80GB of real-world datasets from Cassie robot's Vision Suite
  • Applied SVD and homogeneous transforms for dimensionality reduction and feature engineering
  • Developed novel convolutional RNN network using LSTM and PointNets

Graduate Research Student

Biologically Inspired Robotics and Dynamical Systems Lab

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Nov 2018 - Sep 2019
11 mos

Project: Designed self-righting shell for terrestrial hexapod "Big Ant" under Prof. Shai Revzen, focusing on bio-inspired robotics solutions.

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS:

  • Optimized spline designs using 2nd order differential equations in MATLAB
  • Applied geometric structures such as Gomboc for equilibrium position concepts
  • Modeled 3D shell structure inspired by hexapods using SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor

Innovation Chair

Human Powered Vehicle Student Team

ASME Asia Pacific

May 2016 - Mar 2018
1 yr 11 mos

Leadership Role: Led innovative safety feature development for two-wheeled vehicles with automatic braking and balancing systems, managing cross-functional engineering teams.

KEY INNOVATIONS:

  • Implemented proximity sensor-based emergency braking and balancing platform
  • Designed CAD models, applied FEA, and programmed embedded systems in C
  • Developed airbag helmet system using BeagleBone/Arduino with IMU sensors

Plant Automation and Calibration Intern

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited

Budge Budge, WB, India

Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
2 mos

Impact: Calibrated and maintained datasets for centrifugal pump operations, achieving 35% cost reduction through automation improvements.

TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTIONS:

  • Applied regression techniques to estimate operational costs with 0.75% margin of error
  • Analyzed Variable Frequency Drives and calibrated industrial flowmeters
  • Presented research on "Effect of Variable Frequency Drive on Mechanical Efficiency of Reciprocating Pumps"