Driven by a relentless curiosity about the nature of reality, I aim to push the boundaries of human consciousness and understanding. Humanity stands at the earliest stage of its journey, with the potential to evolve into a civilization that shapes the universe itself. I seek to pursue questions so fundamental that their answers redefine our understanding of existence. Human creativity is not just a tool for discovery, but a force capable of expanding what is possible. Science remains the most powerful path to truth, and at the intersection of AI and science lies the opportunity to accelerate discovery and unlock entirely new frontiers of knowledge.

News

• March 26 Speaking on a panel at GTC 2026 on building AI systems that perceive, reason, and act in the real world - with folks working on humanoids, embodied agents, and physical AI (thread).
• March 26 Joined the AI Circle - a community of researchers and builders pushing the frontiers of AI.
• Jan 26 DreamControl accepted to ICRA’26! Teaching humanoids to interact with scenes like humans do - diffusion meets whole-body control (thread).
• Dec 25 Went back to where it all started - gave an AMA on robotics at IIIT Delhi. Full circle moment.
• Nov 25 Joined 1X to work on robot manipulation with NEO. Excited to be building the future of humanoids.
• Sept 25 Presented our General Robotics work at the Scaleup Summit in SF.
• Aug 25 Teaching robots at SIGGRAPH’25 in Vancouver via NVIDIA DLI. The irony of teaching humans to teach machines.
• May 25 Our paper won best paper at NoC Workshop, ICRA’25! The reviewers were kind.
• April 25 Got into Y Combinator Startup School. Learning from the best in the game.
• March 25 At ICRA’25 in Atlanta - presenting work on predicting what humans will do before they do it.
• Feb 25 GTC’25 in San Jose - where GPU nerds unite.
• Dec 24 Co-developed GRID’s Isaac Sim integration - now powering 3000+ active users and multiple enterprise clients. Turns out robots need a playground too (announcement).
• Aug 24 Serving as a Program Committee Member at AAAI’25.
• July 24 Paper on zero-shot task-oriented grasping via LLM-guided semantic part segmentation accepted as oral at IROS’24.
• June 24 Joined General Robotics as employee #6. Building safe general robot intelligence from the ground up.
• June 24 Officially a CMU Robotics grad! Two years flew by.
• June 24 Work on predicting human actions for robot collaboration accepted to RA-L’24.
• Dec 23 Reviewing papers for ICML’24, ICLR’24, and CoLLAs’24.
• Sept 23 Two papers at ICCV’23 CVEU workshop - one on predicting actions, one on making faces talk. Also got to see Paris!
• Sept 23 Student volunteer at ICCV’23.
• May 23 Selected among 200 researchers for Heidelberg Laureate Forum. Got to meet Turing and Fields Medal winners!
• May 23 Oral presentation at CoLLAs’23 - 12 orals out of all submissions. Teaching robots to learn concepts like humans do.
• Dec 22 Best Demo Paper at ACM MM Asia’23 for our talking face generation work. The judges liked our digital puppets.
• Sept 22 Started research at AART Lab, CMU. Teaching robots to understand humans better.
• Aug 22 Landed at CMU Robotics Institute. Dream school, dream program.
• Jan 22 Joined Preimage - reconstructing 3D scenes from just a handful of drone images.
• Oct 20 Started at CLVR Lab, USC with Joseph Lim. Robots that don’t forget old tricks when learning new ones.
• Aug 20 Research assistant at DeCLaRe Lab, SUTD - teaching machines to see and read at the same time.
• Aug 20 Graduated from IIIT-Delhi with Honors. Four years, many all-nighters, worth it.
• Aug 19 Dean’s Award for Academic Performance - 4 semesters in a row.
• Aug 19 Dean’s Award for Innovation, R&D for my Bachelor’s thesis.
• May 19 Summer at SUTD Brain Lab in Singapore - untangling the mess inside video data with Gaussian processes.
• Dec 18 Research intern at Medical Mechatronics Lab & Advanced Robotics Center, NUS with Dr. Hongliang Ren.
• May 19 INAE Fellowship from IISc.
• Aug 18 6th out of 70 international teams at AUVSI SUAS in Maryland. Our drone didn’t crash!
• Aug 16 Chairman’s Merit Scholarship - top 4 out of 278 students.
• May 15 KVPY Fellowship - top 0.3% of applicants. The exam that started it all.

How I Got Here

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