About me

Hi! I am a robotics researcher specializing in multi-agent coordination and swarm robotics, with a focus on deploying autonomous systems for climate and environmental applications.

I am currently the Head of Software & Data Science at Aquatic Labs, where I lead the development of cutting-edge water monitoring systems. I architected and deployed end-to-end IoT and ML pipelines—from firmware-level signal acquisition to cloud-based inference—enabling the first real-time in-situ measurement of Total Alkalinity, a critical ocean chemistry parameter for climate monitoring.

Prior to this, I was an Applied Scientist II at Amazon Robotics in Boston, MA, where I developed reinforcement learning policies and optimization algorithms for robotic manipulation systems deployed in production environments. I also served as a postdoctoral researcher in the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania working with Dr. Vijay Kumar.

My research focuses on the design of scalable and resilient algorithms for teams of robots operating under difficult conditions, ranging from extreme sensory limitations to environmental and adversarial disturbances. I blend ideas from control theory, robotics, stochastic geometry, statistical mechanics, and biology. More information on my current and past projects can be found here.

I have full-stack experience building autonomous systems, from embedded firmware (C/C++) and circuit design (EAGLE) to distributed robotics infrastructure (ROS/MQTT/Docker/OpenCV/Vicon), cloud-based IoT platforms (EC2, TimescaleDB), and ML systems (PyTorch, physics-informed ML, GNNs, reinforcement learning). I also develop optimization frameworks (Drake, CVXPY, YALMIP) and simulation environments for rapid algorithm prototyping.

I received a PhD degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2019 where I was part of the GRITS Lab working with Dr. Magnus Egerstedt. My Bachelor’s degree is from the Manipal Institute of Technology in Manipal, India. A more detailed chronology of my northwestward journey can be found here.

I am deeply passionate about how technology can accelerate wildlife conservation and ecological restoration. This passion drives my work at Habitat Robotics, where we develop autonomous sensing and AI systems to empower conservation biologists and restoration practitioners. Last winter (2025), I visited Yellowstone National Park to observe wolf packs with Rick McIntyre, an experience that reinforced my conviction that technology, when thoughtfully deployed, can amplify the impact of conservation efforts already underway around the world. I’m also an avid birder and love spending time outdoors hiking, running, and playing tennis.