Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

Oregon State University

Built a learning pipeline for robotic tree-pruning and dexterous apple-picking. Applied Deep RL (PPO) for a UR5 manipulator using Stable Baseline 3 and SKRL. Developed a novel hybrid RL method incorporating suboptimal expert data. Built a procedural tree generation tool for sim-to-real gap bridging.

Robotics Engineer Intern

AgRobotics

Building the future of Agricultural Robots. Deformable object simulation in Isaac Sim. Image auto-labelling using SAM2 and YOLO.

Engineer

Samsung Research Institute

Engineer in 5G NR MAC team. Wrote Unit Tests and Block Tests according to Google Test framework, increasing test coverage. Awarded Software Professional Certification for DSA skills.

Research Intern

RBCCPS LAB, IISc

Adapted state-of-the-art models of Image Inpainting in PyTorch to Dynamic to Static LiDAR Reconstruction. Proposed “LiDAR Quality Index” metric.

President

Robotics Grad Student Association @OSU

Led the Robotics Grad Student Association.

Education

PhD Robotics, Minor in AI

Oregon State University

Advisors: Dr. Cindy Grimm and Dr. Stefan Lee. Courses: Deep Learning, Learning Based Control, Natural Language Processing, Kinematics/Dynamics. GPA: 3.91/4

MS in Robotics, Minor in AI

Oregon State University

Advisors: Dr. Cindy Grimm and Dr. Stefan Lee. GPA: 4.0/4.0

B.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering

Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology

Seminar: Generative techniques to generate artificial datasets Capstone: Birding - Generative Adversarial Networks to convert text description to bird images. (Language conditioned Image generation)
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Python
C/C++
PyTorch
ROS2
Reinforcement Learning
Libraries & Tools
Git
OpenCV
MoveIt!
Awards
Runners up
DotSlash Hackathon ∙ January 2020
Jyoti - An assistant for people with vision impairment.
12th Rank
Robocon 2020 ∙ January 2020
Secured 12th rank out of 120 participating teams.
Languages
100%
English Fluent
100%
Hindi Fluent