How I Got Here

2026 - Present
Building in Stealth
  • We're in stealth and building in robotics. That's all I can share.
2025 - 2026
Research Engineer, 1X Technologies
  • Contributor to Redwood AI (blog) - our end-to-end VLA-driven mobile manipulation stack
  • Contributor to 1X World Model (blog) - video generation model that imagines the future, then acts on it
  • RL for manipulation, WM inference stack, whole-body controller
2024 - 2025
Founding Research Engineer, General Robotics
  • Employee #5, Engineer #1
  • Led sim2real RL (blog), led technical BD, co-led Isaac Sim integration into GRID (blog)
  • Humanoids (blog), quadrupeds (post), manipulator arms (post), agentic AI for robotic skill composition (blog)
2022 - 2024
Master's in Robotics, CMU
2021 - 2022
Deep Learning Research Engineer, Preimage
  • Reconstructing 3D scenes from sparse drone images
2020 - 2021
Visiting Researcher, CLVR Lab, USC
  • Adapting robot policies to new environments without forgetting old skills (advisor: Dr. Joseph Lim)
2019 - 2020
Visiting Student, SUTD Brain Lab
  • Disentangling video sequences using Gaussian processes (paper)
2016 - 2020
B.Tech (with honors), IIIT Delhi

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