Applied Scientist
Boston Dynamics AI Institute
About me
I am an Applied Scientist at the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, generally interested in sequential decision making and its applications to robotics. Prior to this, I earned a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)’s Robotics Institute. I worked in the Search-Based Planning Lab (SBPL) and was advised by Maxim Likhachev and Oliver Kroemer. While my master’s thesis addressed search-based planning for robots performing sensor-based coverage, my other works included novel algorithms for probabilistic planning, multi-resolution heuristic search, and multi-agent pathfinding.
Tell me more!
Before starting the master's program at CMU, I worked as a research engineer at SBPL with Maxim Likhachev, during which time I also closely collaborated with Oren Salzman. Even before that, I earned an undergraduate degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) at BITS Pilani in Goa, India. In my final year, I worked with Michael Kaess in the Robot Perception Lab (RPL) at CMU on improving loop-closures for underwater SLAM—this doubled as my undergraduate thesis.
Updates
- February 2023: I started as an Applied Scientist at the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.
- January 2023: Our paper on integrating cost-to-go heuristics in conflict-based search (lead author Rishi Veerapaneni) was accepted to AAAI 2023. An earlier version of this paper was also accepted to SoCS 2022 as an extended abstract.
- December 2022: I graduated with a Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) degree from CMU.
- August 2022: Our paper on decomposition-free coverage was accepted to CASE 2022.
- May 2022: Our paper on anytime multi-resolution A* (lead author Dhruv Mauria Saxena) was accepted to ICRA 2022.
- July 2021: Our paper on fast probabilistic planning (lead author Ishani Chatterjee) was accepted to SoCS 2021.
- May 2021: Our paper on planning for active sensing was accepted to ICRA 2021.
- August 2020: I started as a master’s student in the Robotics Institute at CMU.
- August 2019: Our paper on persistent multi-UAV coverage was accepted to FSR 2019.
- August 2018: I started as a research engineer in the Search-Based Planning Lab at CMU.
- July 2018: I started as a RISS intern under Maxim Likhachev at CMU.
- May 2018: I graduated from BITS Pilani Goa with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE).