Experience

  1. Research Assistant

    GLAMOR Lab, USC / Georgia Tech
    • Developed SAFECAST, a robust runtime failure-detection framework for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) robot policies using perturbation-augmented hidden-state probes and conformal calibration under visual and language distribution shifts.
    • Evaluated failure prediction across π₀, π₀-FAST, and OpenVLA in simulation and real-world robot manipulation, with contrast sets spanning lighting, texture, distractors, language, and initial-state shifts.
    • Built an RGB-D visual-servoing and gesture-based demonstration system for the Hello Robot Stretch using 3D hand tracking and reactive control, and extended the system to Franka Research 3.
    • Collected multimodal robot trajectories and developed preprocessing, replay, and policy-training pipelines for learning from demonstration.

  2. Research Assistant

    SAIL Lab, University of Southern California
    • Worked on multimodal behavioral coding and temporal activity localization from therapy-session videos involving children with autism.

  3. Research Assistant

    SLURM Lab, University of Southern California
    • Developed robot-learning methods for assistive dressing using segmented point clouds and human pose to maximize garment coverage over the arm.
    • Designed collision-aware trajectory optimization methods for contact-rich manipulation and evaluated them against inverse-kinematics baselines.
    • Contributed to the Cornell PhyRC Assistive Dressing Challenge, where our system achieved the highest Phase-1 score and advanced to Phase 2.

  4. Research Assistant

    I3D Lab, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
    • Built a mixed-reality assistive assembly instruction system with Collins Aerospace using computer vision to detect and track components.
    • Curated real and synthetic training data for component detection, improving detection confidence by 4%.
    • Built mixed-reality robot teleoperation interfaces, including regression-based mapping from HoloLens coordinates to the robot workspace for remote welding path execution.

  5. Developer Associate

    SAP Labs India
    • Developed production backend services for enterprise data privacy and GDPR compliance using Java, Spring Boot, and Node.js.

Education

  1. PhD, Computer Science - Robotics

    Georgia Institute of Technology
    PhD studies began at the University of Southern California in 2025–26 and continued at Georgia Tech after transferring with my advisor, Prof. Jesse Thomason.

  2. MS, Computer Science

    University of Southern California
    GPA: 3.95/4.0

  3. BE, Computer Science and Engineering

    University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore University
    GPA: 4.0/4.0 · 1st Rank · 3 Gold Medals
Awards
Highest Phase-1 Score, PhyRC Assistive Dressing Challenge
EMPRISE Lab, Cornell University ∙ January 2025
Advanced to Phase 2 of the assistive dressing challenge.
1st Rank and 3 Gold Medals
Bangalore University ∙ July 2021
Secured first rank in Computer Science and Engineering with an exemplary academic record.
SAP CSR Hackathon — First Place
SAP Labs India ∙ August 2021
Built an end-to-end computer-vision application for obtaining limb measurements for prosthetic fitting.