Experience

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

• United States
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Research Scientist, NCSA

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  1. Planning, execution, and management of research activities on the I-FARM testbed (only Farm of the Future in the United States). 2. Collaborate with researchers from crop sciences, animal sciences, agronomy, and computer science to develop and deploy digital agriculture solutions. 3. Senior investigator in several USDA-funded grants. 4. Working on robot platforms to enable autonomous plant manipulation like berry picking, pest detection, pruning, etc. 1. Planning, execution, and management of research activities on the I-FARM testbed (only Farm of the Future in the United States). 2. Collaborate with researchers from crop sciences, animal sciences, agronomy, and computer science to develop and deploy digital agriculture solutions. 3. Senior investigator in several USDA-funded grants. 4. Working on robot platforms to enable autonomous plant manipulation like berry picking, pest detection, pruning, etc.



University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Engineer, ABE

  • Mar 2022 - Jun 2022

• Postdoctoral Research Associate

  • Jan 2020 - Mar 2022

  1) Led a team of graduate students to develop a soft, autonomous berry-picking robot. - Integration of vision-based perception, motion planning of the rigid arm, and control of the soft continuum arm. - Dynamic modeling of the soft continuum arm. - Testing the robot in greenhouse and berry fields to incorporate 'intelligence' to move towards autonomy.2) Research on building morphological switching robots to support independent living for older adults.3) Collaborate and coordinate with faculty, administrators, and students across departments to conduct interdisciplinary research4) Advise and mentor several graduate students to ensure a strong understanding of concepts and successful completion of experiments. Show less

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Jan 2014 - Dec 2019

  • Planned and managed multiple research projects investigating the design of spatial soft continuum robots.• Research resulted in three published first author publications in scientific journals and four conference proceedings at international conferences.• Advised and mentored 3 graduate students and numerous undergraduate students.• Managed lab operations including equipment inventory, maintenance, and purchasing.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2014 - May 2017

  • Engineering Graphics and Design (GE 101)• Control Systems(GE 320) • Analysis of Data (IE 300) • Operations Research (IE 310/311) (List of teachers ranked excellent)- Organized and facilitated classroom lessons, activities and presentations.- Conducted lab sessions and office hours on weekly basis.- 'List of teachers ranked excellent'