I am currently a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working with Prof. Daniel Szafir. I also completed my MS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2023. My research focus centers on Human-Robot Interaction and Common Sense Reasoning in Robotics, specifically leveraging Language and Vision-Language Models to enhance robot reasoning for effective collaboration with humans in long-horizon tasks. In my recent work, I developed an approach utilizing Large Language Models to convert high-level tasks into environmentally-aware action plans for intelligent agents. Additionally, I have contributed to the design and evaluation of an immersive Cyber-Physical Control Room interface for the Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robot. In the past I have worked with Prof. Gedas Bertasius on studying the zero-shot performance of Vision Transformers for video object segmentation and pose propagation.

My professional journey includes a year of experience at AI Garage, Mastercard, India, where I focused on Graph Machine Learning to generate contextual embeddings for credit cards and merchants, and I’m interested in finding ways to port my experience across fields to my current and future projects. I also interned at Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore where I worked in the Computer Vision team of the Advanced Technology Lab.

Prior to my graduate studies, I completed my Bachelors in Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where I collaborated with Prof. Ajit Rajwade on 3D Reconstruction in Cryogenic Electron Microscopy for my Undergraduate thesis. I also served as the Software team lead for The The IIT Bombay Mars Rover Team, where I worked on building rovers capable of traversing on Mars like terrain.