About me

I am a final year student in the Ph.D. program at the College of Information and Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I work under the guidance of Professor Rod Grupen at the Laboratory of Perceptual Robotics. My research focuses on long-term autonomy and decision-making under partial observability for robotic systems. I develop active exploration methods to make robots efficiently learn predictive models from experience, prioritizing sample efficiency, task-relevant saliency, and broad coverage of initially unknown state spaces.

I completed my Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering in 2016 and proceeded to work as a Software Developer at Aitoe Labs developing video analytics softwares for online surveillance, search and summarization. While pursuing my undergraduate degree, I had the opportunity to work on a few extremely interesting projects including Square Off and Team Eta.