About Me
I'm a Robotics & ML Engineer at Tesla, working on Optimus — Tesla's humanoid robot. I try to understand the world through the lens of intelligent machines.
I hold an M.S. in Robotic Systems Development from Carnegie Mellon University (MRSD '24) and a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay. At CMU, I was the student representative of the MRSD cohort and represented the university at ICRA '23 in the Quadruped Robot Challenge, winning 3rd place.
My technical interests span motion planning, legged locomotion, computer vision, SLAM, and reinforcement learning. Before robotics, I worked in quantitative finance at Goldman Sachs.
Experience & Education
Robotics Machine Learning Engineer
Tesla
Trying to understand the world through the lens of Optimus (Tesla's humanoid robot)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
The Robotics Institute, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA
Planning Techniques for Robotics (Prof. Maxim Likhachev). I TA'ed this course in my last semester at CMU. I had taken this course in the previous semester and discovered my love for robot planning. I'm sharing my joy with students and helping them get better at it
SDE Intern (C++ Specialist)
Amazon Robotics, Westborough, MA
I spent my first summer in the U.S. in the lovely city of Boston. The internship was off to a rough start. During the second week, I was at my competition in London when my manager informed that he was leaving. I turned things around and delivered a terrific project by the end of the internship
M.S. in Robotic Systems Development
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Awarded the prestigious J.N. Tata scholarship. Student representative of the MRSD cohort. Represented CMU at ICRA '23 in Quadruped Robot Challenge (3rd Prize)
Structuring Analyst
Goldman Sachs, Bengaluru
I returned to a full-time role in the Mortgage Structuring Strategies team, Global Markets Division until I left for my Master's at CMU
Student Developer
Google Summer of Code @JdeRobot
This was in the summer that I graduated from IITB. My project was titled ROS2-RADI and Amazon warehouse exercise in web-based template for ROS2. I learned about Docker, ROS2, and web servers. We deployed the project and I continued contributing till Aug '22
Quantitative Summer Analyst
Goldman Sachs, Bengaluru
I interned in the Mortgage Structuring Strategies team, GMD. My project resulted in a sharp improvement in arbitrage by optimizing cash-flows through multiple derivative instruments
Teaching Assistant | Department of Physics
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
Electricity and Magnetism (Prof. Mithun Mitra). This was in my third semester at IITB. This was a compulsory course for freshmen. I enjoyed Prof. Mithun's teaching so much, that I was keen to give back. I conducted recitations for a batch of 52 students
Sakura Research Exchange
Hiroshima University, Japan
My visit was under the Sakura Research Exchange Programme spanning a week. I was among 15 students from India to be awarded the Sakura Science Plan scholarship '19 from Japan Science & Technology Agency
Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
Physical Chemistry (Prof. Shobhna Kapoor). This was my first summer at IITB. I was the only student in freshmen year selected to serve as a teaching assistant. I guided a class of 15 students with problem-solving skills and concepts in physical chemistry
B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering
IIT Bombay, India
Citation award for technical excellence. Department rank 5 in Mechanical Engineering. Founded and led a student technical quadruped robot team. Highest number of projects in the graduating batch. Achieved All India Rank 698 in JEE Advanced 2017 (~99.7 percentile, it's a lot of people)