Curriculum vitae

• Aug 2026 to Present

  Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  Dynamic Legged Systems lab, with Claudio Semini

  Genova, Italy

  • Learning-based locomotion controllers for quadrupedal robots applied to space exploration, under the ALTEC project.
  • GPU-accelerated reinforcement learning and sim-to-real transfer pipelines on Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab and NVIDIA Newton, for deployment on legged hardware.

• Oct 2023 to Mar 2026

  Tohoku University

  Doctoral Researcher, Space Robotics Lab

  Japanese Government MEXT Scholar, with Kazuya Yoshida

  Sendai, Japan

• Aug 2021 to Jul 2023

  Pune University

  Master of Science in Electronics

  9.6 / 10 CGPA

  Pune, India

• Aug 2018 to Jul 2021

  University of Delhi

  Bachelor of Science in Electronics

  8.6 / 10 CGPA

  Delhi, India

• Jun 2024 to Aug 2024

  International Space University, Space Studies Program 2024

  Project Management Team Lead and Lead Editor

  Hosted at NASA Johnson Space Center and Rice University

  Houston, USA

  • Led the project management team and served as lead editor for the International Lunar University project.
  • Worked under the supervision of Dr. Jacob Cohen, Chief Scientist at NASA Ames.
  • Collaborated with international teams to propose a strategic vision for establishing a lunar university.

• Jan 2023 to Jun 2023

  Wobot Intelligence Inc.

  Computer Vision Intern

  California, USA

  • Developed and deployed neural network models optimised for edge computing.
  • Applied computer vision to video intelligence and analytics on NVIDIA Jetson, with Python, Triton Server, Docker, OpenCV, TensorFlow and Keras.

• Jan 2021 to Dec 2021

  EVI Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

  Cloud Platform Engineer

  In collaboration with the Centre for Automotive Research and Tribology (CART), IIT Delhi

  New Delhi, India

  • Built and deployed a central cloud platform for controlling and managing electric vehicle charging stations.
  • Managed Linux-based servers and backend infrastructure with Python, Django, Apache, AWS and MySQL.

• May 2020 to Dec 2020

  JNE Smart Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

  Embedded Engineer Intern

  Ghaziabad, India

  • Developed and deployed a health kiosk to monitor government employees' health status in Meghalaya, India.
  • Worked on AgriTech control systems for autonomous agricultural field monitoring and irrigation.

• Jul 2019 to Sept 2019

  VHCPL Automation India Pvt. Ltd.

  Embedded Engineer Intern

  Delhi, India

  • Developed and deployed IoT devices for automation tasks.

• 2025

  JAXA Space Exploration Test Field

  Sagamihara, Japan

  Full-scale field validation of the MoonBot APEX framework for modular lunar robots, agentic planning and execution in lunar-analogue terrain and lighting.

• 2025

  JAXA Space Exploration Test Field

  Sagamihara, Japan

  Reinforcement-learning control policies tested on morphology-varying modular robots, validating adaptive control across multiple reconfigurable morphologies.

• 2025

  Abukuma Cave

  Fukushima, Japan

  Modular plug-and-play sensor box for the MoonBot platform, fusing Livox Mid-360 LiDAR, two fisheye cameras and an Intel RealSense D435i. Field-tested by mapping the cave for lunar cave simulation work.

• 2024

  JAXA Space Exploration Test Field

  Sagamihara, Japan

  Human-in-the-loop verification of UR16e manipulator control for deploying solar infrastructure, under uncertain terrain and lighting.

• 2025

  Emerging Space Leader

  International Astronautical Federation (IAF)

  Sydney, Australia

  Recognised as an IAF Emerging Space Leader and grant recipient for IAC 2025.

• 2025

  Invited panelist, IAF Next Generation Plenary

  International Astronautical Federation (IAF), IAC 2025

  Sydney, Australia

  Plenary 6, "Designing the Future of Human Spaceflight", 1 October 2025.

• 2025

  Best Paper Award in Planetary Robotics

  IEEE iSpaRo 2025, 2nd International Conference on Space Robotics

  Sendai, Japan

  For "Multi-Modal Decentralized Reinforcement Learning for Modular Reconfigurable Lunar Robots".

• 2023-2026

  MEXT Research Scholar

  Government of Japan

  Selected as a MEXT Research Scholar through Embassy Recommendation.

• 2024

  I-CON Award (Silver), ISRS I-CON 2024

  Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS)

  Lucknow, India

  For a cloud-based, AI-enabled air pollution tracking system, developed with NRSC-ISRO scientists during the Space Studies Program 2024.

• 2024

  Dispatch Program Grant

  Tohoku University

  EUR 20,000 to attend the International Space University Space Studies Program 2024.

• 2020-present

  Innovation Ambassador

  Innovation Cell, Ministry of Education, Government of India

  Mentoring students and building awareness of innovation and entrepreneurship.

• 2020

  Finalist, National Innovation Contest

  Ministry of Education, Government of India

  Top 10 of more than 30,000 submissions.

• 2019

  2nd Runner Up, National Level IoT Challenge

  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

  An IoT-based AgriTech system for autonomous agricultural monitoring.

• 2024 to present

  Helping Hut (NGO)

  Technical Lead and Advisor

  Built and maintains the platform behind the NGO's volunteer network and donations: volunteer check-in, verifiable certificates, donations with receipts. More on the Society page.

The full list, with DOIs and per-paper pages, is on thepublications page.

Research and simulation

Reinforcement learning, Sim-to-real transfer, Multi-agent systems, Decentralized control, Motion planning, Digital twin simulation, Genetic algorithms, Agentic planning, Computer vision

Frameworks

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, NVIDIA Newton, ROS, ROS 2, MoveIt, MuJoCo, Stable-Baselines3, OpenAI Gym, scikit-learn, Keras, OpenCV

Hardware and field systems

Jetson Orin NX, RealSense D435i, Livox Mid-360 LiDAR, OptiTrack, UR16e manipulator, Modular robotic platforms, FPGAs, Raspberry Pi, Microcontrollers, PCB design

Languages and tools

Python, C, C++, MATLAB, Verilog, VHDL, SQL, Bash, Docker, Linux, Git, AWS