Work

Tesla
Jul '24 - Present

Robotics Machine Learning Engineer | Tesla — Trying to understand the world through the lens of Optimus (Tesla’s humanoid robot)

The Robotics Institute
Jan '24 - May '24

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

Amazon Robotics
May '23 - Aug '23

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

Goldman Sachs
Jul '21 - Jul '22

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

Google Summer of Code
Jun '21 - Aug '21

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

Goldman Sachs
May '20 - Jun '20

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

IIT Bombay
Jan '24 - May '24

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

IIT Bombay
Apr '18 - May '18

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


Education

Carnegie Mellon University
Aug '22 - May '24

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)

Hiroshima University
Jun '19

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

IIT Bombay
Jul '17 - Aug '21

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)