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Postdoctoral Scholar

Clemson University

• Developed a belief-aware vision-language model with memory retrieval for long-horizon intent inference and human-like reasoning.
• Proposed MA-VLCM, which replaces a learned critic with a pretrained vision-language model to improve sample efficiency and support zero-shot-generalizable multi-agent policies.

Research Associate

Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

• Enhanced long-range detection using camera and range sensors for autonomous emergency braking.
• Simulated rainy conditions using monocular depth estimation and physics-based particles to study sensor degradation.

Research Intern

Honda Research Institute

• Adviser: Dr. Songpo Li
• Developed a seven-degree-of-freedom human arm model using model predictive control for coordinated reaching and orientation.
• Optimized cost-function weights to generate human-like trajectories and validated them against upper-limb motion data.

Research Assistant

Virginia Tech

• Adviser: Dr. Azim Eskandarian
• Developed uncertainty-aware social-navigation planners using chance constraints and control barrier functions.
• Learned vision-based potential-field cost maps for obstacle avoidance.
• Built a sequence-to-sequence Kalman-filter surrogate with deep ensembles to propagate sensing uncertainty.
• Applied Monte Carlo dropout for Bayesian trajectory prediction, improving accuracy by 15% over deterministic models.
• Designed cooperative prediction for occluded objects in GPS-denied environments.
• Proposed a Gaussian-process-based probabilistic RRT for proactive collision avoidance.
• Deployed the ROS/CARMA-based autonomous X-CAR platform with SLAM, V2V communication, waypoint generation, and data processing.

Graduate Student Researcher

Virginia Tech

• Adviser: Dr. Hodjat Pendar
• Designed a robotic fish to investigate how caudal-fin flexibility, shape, and thickness affect propulsion performance.
• Developed a numerical model of fish dynamics and compared thrust and efficiency between freely swimming and tethered fish.

PhD

Virginia Tech

Mechanical Engineering

• Thesis: Cooperative Prediction and Planning Under Uncertainty for Autonomous Robots
• Adviser: Dr. Azim Eskandarian

MS

Virginia Tech

Mechanical Engineering

• Thesis: Effect of Kinematics and Caudal Fin Properties on Performance of a Freely-Swimming Fin
• Adviser: Dr. Hodjat Pendar

BTech

National Institute of Technology Rourkela

Mechanical Engineering

• Adviser: Dr. Soumya Gangopadhyay

Prediction Uncertainty-Aware Planning Using Deep Ensembles and Trajectory Optimization

Under review

Pedestrian Trajectory Forecasting Using Deep Ensembles Under Sensing Uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Cooperative Probabilistic Trajectory Prediction Under Occlusion

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles

X-CAR - An Experimental Vehicle Platform for Connected Autonomy Research

IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine

Uncertainty Estimation of Pedestrian Future Trajectory Using Bayesian Approximation

IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems

Motion Planning of Autonomous Vehicles Under Dynamic Traffic Environment in Intersections Using Probabilistic Rapidly Exploring Random Tree

SAE International Journal of Connected and Automated Vehicles

A Comparative Study on Feature Descriptors for Relative Pose Estimation in Connected Vehicles

ASME 2021 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition

Relative Pose Estimation for Cooperative Vehicles and Tracking of Multiple Dynamic Objects

ASME 2021 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition

Effect of Kinematics and Physical Properties of Caudal Fin on Performance of a Robotic Fish

APS March Meeting Abstracts

Performance Comparison of a Tethered and Freely-Swimming Fin

Under review at Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Modelling, Simulation and Experimental Investigation for Generating ‘I’ Shaped Contour on Inconel 825 Using Electrochemical Machining

Journal of Manufacturing Processes

Pratt Fellowship

Virginia Tech

Prestigious fellowship awarded by the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Summer Research Fellowship

IASc-INSA-NASI

Fellowship supporting summer research at the Indian Institute of Science.

Mahindra Baja SAE Finalist

Mahindra Baja SAE Indian Student Chapter

Finalist at the Mahindra Baja SAE competition in Pithampur, India.