Professional Experience

My professional experience in robotics and technology

Directed Research Student

Manipulation and Environment Lab (MER Lab)
Worcester, MA
August 2025 - December 2025
  • Built a ROS 2 perception and control pipeline for the Franka Panda that picks and sorts waste objects from a moving conveyor belt, using an Intel RealSense and an antipodal grasping network
  • Replaced the existing Arduino conveyor controller with a Beckhoff TwinCAT PLC for deterministic real-time actuation

Grader

RBE2002 Unified Robotics II: Sensors and Perception, WPI
Worcester, MA
November 2025 - December 2025
  • Graded assignments and provided written feedback for an undergraduate sensors and perception course

IoT Software Intern

HCLTech
Chennai, India
May 2024 - July 2024
  • Built a stress-test simulator for industrial IoT protocols (ModBus, CAN, BACnet, PROFINET) that generated high-throughput mock sensor streams for validation
  • Developed an Android app for scanning and tracking BLE asset tags in a manufacturing environment

Undergraduate Research Student

STIRS Grant, Shiv Nadar University
Chennai, India
December 2022 - March 2025
  • Received a ₹18,500 university research grant to study ML-based cognitive assessment in university students