I got my undergraduate degree in 2019 in Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus in India, following which, I spent a year at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. There I co-led a small team working on autonomous drone problems, including autonomous landing on moving targets and vision-based obstacle avoidance.

In 2020, I came to Northeastern University, Boston, USA to pursue an MS in Robotics, during which I did a co-op at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) focused on development and operation of long-range underwater robots. I stayed on at Northeastern and started my PhD in 2022 with Dr. Alireza Ramezani at the SiliconSynapse Lab, which works on bio-inspired, multi-modal robots designed for operation in complex terrain. My PhD thesis work is on snake robot autonomy and control, and I am exploring contact-implicit modeling for gait generation and integrating it with onboard SLAM and vision-based autonomy for locomotion and loco-manipulation in unstructured environments.

I have also worked on several other platforms in the lab, including M4, a morphing ground-aerial robot, for which I studied trajectory optimization for in-air posture manipulation and thrust vectoring to demonstrate agile flight, as well as traversability estimation for multi-modal path planning to help the robot decide when to use ground or aerial modes.