Professional Experience

Academic and Industry Positions

PhD Research Intern, Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous Vehicle Research Group, NVIDIA Research

May 2025 - Present
Santa Clara, CA

Research on safety evaluations for autonomous vehicles with NVIDIA Research.

Terminal Graduate Student, Aeronautics and Astronautics

Safe and Intelligent Autonomy Lab, Stanford University

Jan 2025 - Present
Stanford, CA

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

PhD Candidate, Electrical Engineering

Safe and Intelligent Autonomy Lab, University of Southern California

Aug 2020 - Present
Los Angeles, CA

Research on safe decision-making of robotic systems using control theory, planning, and machine learning in the Safe and Intelligent Autonomy Lab.

Graduate Student Research Assistant

Bipedal Robot Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

May 2019 - Aug 2020
1 yr 4 mos

Designed Deep Neural Network for LiDAR-based Detection of Visual Fiducial scans achieving 99.82% accuracy under Prof. Jessy Grizzle.

Graduate Student Researcher

UM & Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicles (FCAV), Ann Arbor, MI

Jan 2020 - May 2020
5 mos

Human Intent Prediction for Autonomous Vehicle Safety research under Prof. Ram Vasudevan and Dr. Xiaoxiao Du.

Graduate Research Student

BIRDS Lab, University of Michigan

Nov 2018 - Sep 2019
11 mos

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

Innovation Chair

Team Anant, Vellore Institute of Technology

May 2016 - Mar 2018
1 yr 11 mos

Led innovative safety feature development for two-wheeled vehicles with automatic braking and balancing systems.

Plant Automation and Calibration Intern

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, West Bengal, India

Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
2 mos

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