About
I am an Assistant Professor in Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center of Resilient Autonomous Systems at the University of California, Irvine, where I collaborated with Profs. Pramod Khargonekar and Mohammad Al Faruque. I am passionate about developing novel algorithms to aid autonomous vehicles and robots to accomplish a mission. I have worked on various aspects of autonomous vehicles, including leading a 50 student team from Texas A&M University in developing a Level 4 autonomous car. I received my Ph.D. from Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, where I worked with Profs. Swaroop Darbha and Sivakumar Rathinam on collaborations with AFRL, NRL, and GM. I received my B.Tech and M.Tech from IIT Madras from the Engineering Design department, where I worked with Prof. C. S. Shankar Ram.
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- 29 June 2026Joined IIT Bombay as Assistant ProfessorI joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay, as an Assistant Professor.
- 2 May 2026Papers accepted in IEEE Transactions on RoboticsThree papers submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics have been accepted in the last 30-odd days.
- 5 February 2026Joining IIT Bombay as Assistant ProfessorI am excited to announce that I will be joining the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay, as an Assistant Professor in summer of 2026.
- 15 December 2025NVIDIA Academic GrantOur project, "Physical AI for Safe and Collaborative Multi-Robot Systems," has been selected for the NVIDIA Academic Grant. We are deeply grateful to NVIDIA for their generous support. Thanks to the grant, we'll have access to 4x RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition GPUs and 4x Jetson AGX Orin Dev Kits.
- 28 October 2025Attending NeurIps 2025I will be attending NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego.
- 24 October 2025Talk at SoCal Control ConferencePresented my contributions for the spherical dubins problem at SoCal Control Conference.
- 29 September 2025Paper submittedPreprint of our paper titled "A Novel Model for 3D Motion Planning for a Generalized Dubins Vehicle with Pitch and Yaw Rate Constraints" is available on arXiv.(link)
- 18 August 2025Joined as a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC IrvineJoined as a postdoctoral scholar at the Center of Resilient Autonomous Systems at the University of California, Irvine.
- 9 August 2025Graduated!Graduated with my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University.