I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at UC Riverside in the Mechanical Engineering department. My advisor is Prof. Fabio Pasqualetti. Broadly, my research is focused on analyzing the behavior of robotic systems and embodied AI agents driven by black-boxes. I use probabilistic tools in control theory and ML in my research.

I recently interned at the Honda Research Institute where I worked on probing human drivers for intention inference. Previously, I was a Research Assistant with Dr. Pavankumar Tallapragada at the Indian Institute of Science. I got my Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India.

News

• New pre-prints on dynamics-aware diffusion models for robotics and control (Paper 1, Paper 2)
• (09/16/2024) I’m starting a research internship at the Honda Research Institute.
• (09/04/2024) I gave a talk on a probabilistic perspective to understanding AI agents’ behavior and developing nonlinear controllers at the University of Southern California.