CV

Lead Robotics Engineer

Nimble.ai

Staff Robotics Engineer

Nimble.ai

• Enabling autonomous mobile manipulator fleets that move, carry, pick and pack millions of SKUs across warehouses.

Senior Robotics Engineer

Nimble.ai

• Tech Lead on Mobile Manipulation Robotics Team.
• Spearheaded development of high-impact control features, doubling throughput in Q4 2023, which proved crucial for commercial success and fundraising.
• Diagnosed and resolved critical production issues involving mobile robot dynamics slip and sensing noise across heterogeneous robot fleets.
• Designed simulation and data analytics tools to benchmark and improve locomotion reliability and multi-sensor integration.

Robotics Engineer II

Nimble.ai

Robotics Engineer

Nimble.ai

• First robotics engineer on the flagship robotic system, responsible for item picking and autonomous warehouse navigation.

Graduate Student Researcher

Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute

Advisor: Prof. Hartmut Geyer

• Worked on optimal control of highly non-linear, dynamic, and underactuated legged systems, including the ATRIAS biped.
• Focused on exploiting natural dynamics of legged systems to achieve dynamic maneuvers with minimal energy expenditure.

State Estimation & Localization, CMU Moon Rover

Carnegie Mellon University

Part-time project

• Developed robust state estimator for localization of the CMU Moonranger autonomous space rover, targeting the Lunar South Pole.
• Developed vehicle kinematics models and probabilistic filters for localization.
• Designed power switching circuitry to mitigate single event upsets caused by ionizing radiation in space.

Research Engineer, Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory

Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

Advisor: Prof. R. Prasanth Kumar

• Engineered a full-sized humanoid robot (1.72m) from scratch with a budget of INR 7M (USD 100K).
• Developed controllers for walking, active balance, push recovery, and vertical jumping.
• Built a flying biped combining terrain capabilities of a biped with aerial capabilities of a quadrotor (presented at IROS 2018).
• Designed novel footplates for prostheses and orthoses enhancing lateral stability (patented).
• Implemented micron-level precision control on a five-bar parallel manipulator.

LVP-MIT Research Fellow

LVPEI Center for Innovation

Research collaboration between LVPEI Center for Innovation and MIT Media Lab

• Gaze tracking of infants to quantify response to changing light stimuli without subjectivity.
• Developed hardware system for Pupil+, a handheld device to quantify pupillary and neurological responses to light stimuli.
• Developed an inexpensive, multifunctional device to diagnose Dry Eye Syndrome.
• Technical mentor at the 5th and 6th editions of “Engineering the Eye” Hackathon; mentored teams placed 1st runner-up both years.

Team Lead

SRM Team Humanoid, SRM University

Advisor: Prof. Hemalatha B

• Led design, fabrication, and control of humanoid robots for international competitions.
• Won India’s first Gold Medal at Robogames 2017 in the Autonomous Humanoid Penalty Kick category.

MS

Carnegie Mellon University

Robotics

• Thesis: Turning Behavior of Running Systems induced by Leg Placement
• Research with Prof. Hartmut Geyer on optimal control of dynamic legged systems, including the ATRIAS biped
• Partially supported by NSF Grant 1563807: Collaborative Research on Self-stabilizing Running Robots

B.Tech

SRM University

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

• Best Graduation Thesis, EEE Department (among 700+ students)
• University Merit Scholar, all 4 years

Mike Stilman Award for Outstanding Research Paper, Finalist

IEEE RAS International Conference on Humanoids 2025, Seoul, South Korea

One of two finalists selected from 202 submissions, for TARS3D.

Best Safety Features Award

Micron UV Robot Design Challenge

Won among 400 contestants as the only one-person team. Designed the robot in under 3 days.

Jury Member, Drones and Robotics Track

Smart India Hackathon Hardware Edition, Ministry of Human Resource Development, India

Robogames 2017 — Gold Medal (Autonomous Humanoid Penalty Kick)

Robogames, San Francisco, USA

Also won Silver (Humanoid Freestyle), Silver (Humanoid Biped Race), Bronze (RC Humanoid Sumo). India’s first Robogames gold medal.

WAT Consult Best Innovation Award

Atmos Techfest, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India

Third Prize, Humanoid Application Challenge — Humanoid Magic

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2017

Best Graduation Thesis

EEE Department, SRM University (among 700+ students)

IEEE Travel Grant ($500)

IEEE

To attend IROS 2017, Vancouver.

Winner, National Maker Summit

IIT Madras

For Aawaaz, a bone-conduction hearing aid.

Robogames 2015 — Bronze Medal

Robogames, San Francisco, USA

University Merit Scholar

SRM University

All 4 years.

Walking, Rolling, and Beyond: First-Principles and RL Locomotion on a TARS-Inspired Robot

International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2025 (Humanoids 2025)

Building Baymax: A First Step Toward Soft-Link Humanoids

10th 'Can we build Baymax?' Workshop, Humanoids 2025

Bridging Fiction and Reality: Evaluating the Feasibility of Adaptive Gaits Inspired by TARS from Interstellar

International Symposium of Experimental Robots 2025 (ISER 2025)

Adaptive Gaits of TARS: A Sci-Fi Inspired Multimodal Robot

2nd Workshop on Unconventional Robots, ICRA 2025

Turning Behavior of Running Systems induced by Leg Placement

Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Technical Report

Biped Robot Vertical Jumping with Control Constraints

Robotics and Biomimetics 2018 (ROBIO 2018)

Real-Time Teleoperation of a Humanoid Robot with Motion Imitation and Legged Locomotion

International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics 2018 (ICARM 2018)

Dynamic Lateral Balance of Humanoid Robots on Unstable Surfaces

ICEECCOT 2017