experience

ML Engineer, Perception – Waymo

[Jan 2025 - Now]

Working in the Perception org on the sensor-fusion stack for their self-driving fleet.

ML Intern – Apple

[Jan 2024 - Aug 2024]

Working in the Vision Products Group (VPG) on computer vision for AR/VR applications.

Graduate Research Assistant – Georgia Tech

[Aug 2022 - Present]

Advisor: Dhruv Batra

PIs: Manolis Savva, Angel Chang

Continuing research at Prof. Batra’s lab on visual, embodied agents.

• Habitat Synthetic Scenes Dataset: An Analysis of 3D Scene Scale and Realism Tradeoffs for ObjectGoal Navigation
• HomeRobot: Open Vocab Mobile Manipulation

Research Intern – CVMLP Lab

[Apr 2021 - Jul 2022]

Advisor: Dhruv Batra

Studying the impact of noise in indoor localization on learnt scene memory representations and downstream question answering performance of embodied assistants.

• Episodic Memory Question Answering

  Accepted at CVPR 2022!

Research Fellow – Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad

[Jan 2020 - Mar 2021]

Advisor: Prof. K. Madhava Krishna

Worked on building facade plane segmentation and surface normal estimation for 3D reconstruction from drone-view images using deep learning and geometrical methods.

Research Intern – Vision Lab, IIT Gandhinagar

[Feb 2019 - Jan 2020]

Advisor: Prof. Shanmuganathan Raman

Worked on HDR image reconstruction from single exposure LDR image (sequences) using Deep Learning, and HDRSloMo: Deep Weakly-Supervised High Frame-rate HDR Video Generation (manuscript in progress).

Technical Writer and Editor – ScoutAPM

[Oct 2019 - Present]

Manager: Hayley Keith

Writing and editing software, web development content for ScoutAPM’s blog.

Google Summer of Code ‘19 – Open Robotics

[May 2019 - Sep 2019]

Advisor: Jose Luis Rivero

Created a documentation index and a corresponding entry suggestion-tool for open-source robotic simulation software Gazebo as a part of GSoC 2019.

Software Developer – SRM Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

[Sep 2017 - May 2019]

Advisor: Prof. Annapurani Panaiyappan

• Developed the vehicle’s software stack, including it’s control and navigation systems and image processing modules using ROS.
• Also developed an underwater simulation environment using ROS and Unity-3D for testing.