Wins
[Feb 2026] 🥈 Silver medal at Physical AI Hackathon (Founders, Inc). Built hierarchical VLA with LLM orchestrator for long-horizon task execution in 24 hours.
[2024-25] CMU MRSD Admissions Committee member. Reviewing applications and interviewing candidates for the Robotics Institute.
[2024–Now] Perception Engineer at Mach9 building HD mapping systems with sub-centimeter accuracy. Shipped to 20+ enterprise customers across 15,000+ miles. (Mach9)
[Oct 2024] Published FF-RRT* in ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics: multirobot flexible formation path planning. (DOI)
[May 2024] Graduated from Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute (MRSD). Built assistive robots deployed to senior living facilities.
[2023–24] 🏅 James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellow at CMU. 1 of 12 students selected.
[Summer 2023] Interned at Mach9. Built polyline extraction pipeline for HD maps that shipped to production.
[Aug 2022] Started at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. Built zero-shot assistive robot with LLM integration.
[May 2022] 🏅 Director's Gold Medal at IIT Gandhinagar — highest honor awarded to a single graduating student.
[May 2022] 🏅 Institute Gold Medal — Rank 1 in Electrical Engineering, GPA 9.33/10.
[May 2022] 🏅 Sports Gold Medal for Table Tennis at IIT Gandhinagar.
[Spring 2022] Peer Assisted Learning Mentor: guided freshmen adjusting to college life in English.
[Apr 2022] Two conference papers accepted at ACM CODS-COMAD: Program Synthesis with Feedback and Indian Classical Music Synthesis.
[2022] 🏅 Admitted to 9 top robotics programs: CMU, Caltech, UPenn, UMich, Georgia Tech, JHU, UCLA, UCSD, Purdue. Chose CMU.
[2021] 🏅 MITACS Globalink Research Internship at Western University. 3D plant phenotyping research. <15% acceptance rate.
[Fall 2021] Teaching Assistant for graduate-level Natural Language Processing course; initiated and supervised 4 projects.
[Spring 2021] Academic Discussion Hours Mentor: taught freshmen in Introduction to Analog and Digital Electronics.
[Sep 2021] Published Memory Guided Road Segmentation at ICIAP (21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing).
[2021] 🏅 O.P. Jindal Engineering & Management Scholarship for academic and leadership excellence.
[2021] Python for Robotics Workshop: hosted an intro to robotics workshop using a Python library I built.
[Fall 2020] Academic Discussion Hours Mentor: taught sophomores in the Digital Systems course.
[2020–22] Built InsIIT, official IIT Gandhinagar campus app with team of 5. 1,000+ downloads on day 1. Still used 4+ years later. (Play Store)
[2020] Built Library IITGN app independently. Official library application with real-time book availability. 1,000+ downloads. (Play Store)
[2020] 🏅 Won Invent for the Planet Hackathon (Texas A&M University). Regional Winning Team.
[2019] Built FoodBuddy, a voice-assisted dining device for people with disabilities. Provisional Patent (US & India). Featured in 27+ press articles.
[2019] Selected for Invention Factory @ IITGN. Started robotics journey through e-Yantra competition.
[2018–22] 🏅 Dean's List for Academic Excellence every graded semester. Ranked #1 in Electrical Engineering.
[2018] Started at IIT Gandhinagar. JEE Advanced AIR 3326 / 1,55,158. JEE Main AIR 4016 / 10.5 lakh.
[2018] 🏅 National Topper — Computer Science. 100% in AISSCE 2018.
My Story
Perception Software Engineer 2024–Now
Mach9 - I own the perception stack for Digital Surveyor — sub-centimeter 3D scene understanding fusing multi-view imagery and LiDAR, deployed across 20+ enterprise customers over 20,000+ miles.
- Leading research in state-of-the-art architectures for HD mapping.
- mach9.ai
Master's in Robotic Systems Development 2022–2024
Carnegie Mellon University - Built Alfred, an assistive robot for elderly care!
- Complex project that involved building an autonomy stack for a mobile manipulator to perform very long horizon tasks.
MITACS Globalink Fellow 2021
Western University - Single-view 3D plant reconstruction using learned shape priors
B.Tech in Electrical Engineering 2018–2022
IIT Gandhinagar - Focus: Computer Vision, Robotics, Deep Learning