I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Candidate working on the AIGreenBots EU project at the Georgia Tech–CNRS International Research Lab IRL2958 (Dreamlab), France. I’m advised by Stéphanie Aravecchia and Cédric Pradalier.
I earned my master’s degree from the University of Bonn where I majored in Mobile Sensing and Robotics . I wrote my master thesis at the Photogrammetry and Robotics Lab with Marija Popović and Cyrill Stachniss. During my master’s I also spent a semester working on robotics simulation, RL and sim2real at the Embodied AI team at Huawei Munich with Carlos Carbone.
Previously, I worked as a founding employee and assistant manager of the robotics focused VC and startup accelerator IHFC. Previously to which, I worked on model predictive control as an intern at IIT Delhi with S.K. Saha, which followed my earlier experience developing delivery drones with SRMUAV.
I am passionate about working on architectures for perception, representation learning and decision making tasks. My current research interests revolve around reinforcement learning, generative models, interpretability and neuro-inspired AI architectures.
News
- Jul 2025, Our work on ‘Uncertainty-Informed Active Perception for Open Vocabulary Object Goal Navigation’ was accepted at ECMR 2025. arXiv preprint
- Jan 2025, Became a member of the Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science
- Sep 2022, Our work on ‘Design and Fabrication of a Lighter than Air Wind Turbine’, was published as a book chapter. Book Chapter
- Sep 2021, Our work on model predctive control for drones done during my internship at IIT Delhi was published at the AIR conference. Conference Proceedings
- Nov 2020, Served as a referee on the jury of the DD-Robocon 2020, India’s largest robotics competition.
Awards
- Jul 2025, Received the Phenorob M.Sc Conference Grant to present a research paper at the ECMR 2025.
- Jun 2025, Awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD Fellowship to support my doctoral research on the AIGreenBots EU project.
- Jul 2022, Received full financial aid to attend the ETH Robotics Summer School, 11% acceptance rate.
- Oct 2019, Won the Mathworks Minidrone competition at the 2019 IEEE IROS conference.
- Jul 2019, Won the ‘Best in Technical Design’ award at the AUVSI SUAS competition for our combined design report.