Experience

Rice University

• Houston, Texas

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Jun 2019 - Present

  PhD student under Dr. Ashok Veeraraghavan PhD student under Dr. Ashok Veeraraghavan



NEC Laboratories America, Inc.

• San Jose, California, United States

• Research Intern

  • May 2020 - Aug 2022

  Working with the Media Analytics group. Working with the Media Analytics group.



University of Florida

• Gainesville, Florida Area

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2016 - May 2019

  Project Title: Directionally Controlled Time-of-Flight Ranging Mentor: Prof. Sanjeev J. Koppal Currently working on the Micro-Lidar project funded by NSF grant. Member of the The Florida Optics and Computational Sensor (FOCUS) Lab which is part of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. • Developed a MEMS steerable LIDAR imaging system and demonstrated for the first time a set of algorithms to directionally control a TOF sensor in an adaptive manner, given scene measurements. • Demonstrated novel applications such as LIDAR zoom, LIDAR edge sensing for gradient-based reconstruction and energy efficient LIDAR scanning enabled by directionally controlled scanning. Show less



University of Stuttgart

• Stuttgart Area, Germany

• Research Assistant

  • May 2015 - Jul 2015

  Project Title: Large Scale Robotic Fabrication using autonomous quadrotors Advisor: Dr. Achim Menges, Institute for Computational Design, University of Stuttgart, Germany. The project aim was to develop an autonomous system for large scale robotic fabrication using two KUKA manipulators (to wind carbon fibre around a frame) and a quadrotor (transport the fibre from workspace of one manipulator to the other). -Developed the autonomous localization and control framework for a quadrotor in a GPS- denied environment using webcam and IMU as primary sensors for large scale robotic fabrication. -We achieved autonomy by integrating ROS (Robot Operating System) SLAM and visual odometry libraries with dronekit API running on Raspberry-Pi. -Integrated ROS SLAM with IMU updates using an extended kalman fitler to get pose estimates Show less



Boeing

• Kanpur

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Project Title: Boeing Abhyast Phase V- SLAM on MAVs Mentor: Prof. S. Bhattacharya, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. -Got selected for the internship based on project proposals -Lead the Sensory and Control Systems division of the team, which developed visualisation system of the environment using data received from URG LIDAR Sensors, 9 DOF Inertia Mesaurenent Unit (IMU) on a Beagleboard, implementing the hector SLAM algorithm. -Implemented SLAM using a 1-D LIDAR, IMU on Beagleboard for the autonomous navigation of a quadrotor. Show less