Research & engineering
Earlier research, collaborative engineering, and selected technical reports from UCLA, IIT Bombay, and IISc.
Historical projects are listed separately from current research. Course reports and unpublished manuscripts are labeled as such.
IIT Bombay · 2018–2021 · With Amuthan Arunkumar Ramabathiran
Explored bistable mechanical elements for transmitting and transforming binary information. The archived manuscript describes AND and NOT gates, signal-routing elements, adders, and a mechanical neuron design.
Indian Institute of Science · 2019 · With Bharadwaj Amrutur’s group
Worked on ultra-wideband ranging and localization, including anchor geometry, time-difference-of-arrival methods, clock drift, and multipath effects.
UCLA LEMUR · 2021–2022
Contributed to visual detection, sensing, and airship design for a multi-robot platform. The lab’s project notes document work on ball detection, range estimation, and modular software.
IIT Bombay · 2020–2021 · With Dwaipayan Mukherjee
Undergraduate thesis on distributed allocation, collision-aware formation maneuvers, and attitude consensus for assembling a parabolic telescope in an elliptic orbit. The associated paper and MACRO code are featured on the homepage.
IIT Bombay · 2018–2019 · Electrical engineering team
Contributed to solar-cell and power-circuit analysis, antenna-deployment circuitry, and engineering quality-assurance practices for IIT Bombay’s student satellite project.
UCLA · Begun in 2024 · Historical project
Investigated neural-network models of reachable landing regions from initial rocket states and inertial parameters.
IROS Mobile Manipulation Hackathon · 2021 · With Manan Tayal and Nambilakshmi Ramachandran
Collaborated on an assistive-robot concept for containment environments, with Webots simulations, face-recognition tests, and a patient-database demonstration. The work explored medicine delivery, temperature checks, and sanitization as simulated tasks.
Inter-IIT Tech Meet · 2021 · Team design project
Contributed systems analysis and mechanical design for an agricultural robot, including seed metering, transplantation, and precision spraying. The project focused on the constraints of farming in hilly terrain.
Inter-IIT Tech Meet · 2019 · Team project
Worked on ROS-based communication, coverage planning, object detection, and hardware integration for a cooperating UAV fleet.
IIT Bombay · 2021 · Course research project
Compared serial and parallel implementations of graph-based path-planning algorithms, including OpenMP and CUDA approaches. The report records both computational trade-offs and memory limitations.
IIT Bombay · Mechatronics project
Developed electronics and mobile controls for a lead-screw positioning stage driven by stepper motors, with fine and coarse motion controls.
IIT Bombay · 2021 · Team electronics project
Designed a modular solar-lighting system with battery protection, ambient-light sensing, and charge-aware intensity control.
IIT Bombay · Robotics course project
Built and integrated a 3D-printed robotic arm with camera-based shape detection and sorting, spanning mechanical design, electronics, and perception.
IIT Bombay · 2018 · Institute Technical Summer Project
Combined camera capture, image processing, Sudoku solving, and a block-printing mechanism to fill a puzzle grid.
UCLA · 2025 · With Ben Forbes and Samantha Herman
A course project using MuJoCo and OpenSim to explore EMG-driven resistance control for a simulated robotic arm.
2018 · Aerospace engineering coursework
Parameterized fixed-wing glider design and testing.
2019 · Electronics coursework
SPICE modeling of a differential amplifier and applications including filters and oscillators.
2020 · Team laboratory report
Fabrication, measurement, and current–voltage characterization of silicon solar cells.
2020 · Aerospace engineering coursework
Trajectory and mission analysis of Atlas V TDO launches using public mission information.
2020 · Machine-learning coursework
A comparison of SARSA, Q-learning, and variants in a gridworld with deterministic and stochastic wind.