CV

Education

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MS in Robotics Engineering, 2018-2020

• Research Focus: SLAM and Perception & Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving

LNM Institute of Information Technology, BTech. in Mechatronics Engineering, 2014-2018

• Focus: Motion Planning for Quadrupeds and Hexapods.

Experience

Senior Research Engineer Honda Research Institute, San Jose, CA 2020-Present

• Large (City) Scale Visual Mapping & Localization for Autonomous Vehicles
• BEV (Bird Eye View) Perception for Road Scene Understanding
• Multi-Modal Spatial Perception for Generalized Robot Navigation & Manipulation | Embodied AI

Computer Vision Intern Carnegie Robotics, Pittsburgh, PA May-December 2019

• Visual-Inertial Odometry for a Multi-Camera Field Robot
• Long-Term Visual-Inertial Localization across Multiple Seasons

Robotics Research Intern International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) - Hyderabad, India Jan-April 2018

• Active SLAM using Reinforcement Learning

Robotics Research Intern Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Jodhpur, India May-December 2015

• Gait Planning for Quadrupedal Robots

Skills

• Programming: Python, C++, CUDA
• ML: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy
• Languages: English (Fluent), Hindi (Fluent), Gujarati (Native)