I am a first year Robotics Ph.D. student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Dhruv Batra and Prof. Sonia Chernova, and work closely with Prof. Devi Parikh. I am interested in working at the intersection of machine learning and robotics. My long-term research goal is to develop robots that are scalable, robust and capable of working in complex, real world environments.

As an undergrad, I worked in the Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles Research (RIVeR) lab at Northeastern University with Prof. Taskin Padir. During my time there, I worked with the Human Support Robot (HSR) from Toyota Research Institute to develop novel perception algorithms utilizing deep learning for personal service robots to improve the quality of life for the elderly and disabled. I competed at the 2019 RoboCup@Home competition in Sydney, Australia and the 2018 World Robot Summit in Tokyo, Japan, in which we qualified for after placing 4th overall and 1st in the US at the 2018 RoboCup@Home competition in Montreal, Canada.

I also spent time co-oping at various robotics start-ups in Boston. Most recently, I was a software engineer at Square Robots, where I developed autonomous robots for tank inspections. Prior to that, I was a software/ electrical engineer at NextDroid, working on self-driving cars and autonomous underwater vehicles.