Professional Experience

My professional experience in robotics and technology

Graduate Research Assistant

Aerial Controls and Perception Lab (ACP Lab), WPI | Advisor: Dr. Guanrui Li
Worcester, MA
May 2026 to Present
  • Designs a depth-only recurrent model for autonomous UAV exploration in unknown environments, replacing privileged-information navigation baselines (time-of-arrival maps, differentiable-physics gradients) with an onboard-only depth-prediction pipeline
  • Built a GRU-based recurrent depth predictor fusing depth, proprioceptive state, action, and timestep inputs; skip-connected decoding cut test loss ~40%, and bidirectional training resolved a forward/reverse temporal asymmetry

Directed Research Student

Manipulation and Environment Lab (MER Lab)
Worcester, MA
August 2025 to 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

IoT Software Intern

HCLTech
Chennai, India
May 2024 to 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 to March 2025
  • Received a ₹18,500 university research grant to study ML based cognitive assessment in university students