How I Got Here

2026 - Present
Founding Team, Warp Sciences
  • Employee #1
  • Co-leading the robot learning effort
2025 - 2026
Research Engineer, 1X Technologies
  • Contributor to Redwood AI (blog) - our end-to-end VLA-driven navigation stack
  • Contributor to 1X World Model (blog) - video action generation model that predicts what happens next and how to get there
2024 - 2025
Founding Research Engineer
  • First Hire, Employee #5
  • Led sim2real RL (blog), led technical business development, co-led NVIDIA x GRID integration (blog, link)
  • Humanoids (blog), quadrupeds (post), manipulator arms (post), agentic AI for robotic skill composition (blog)
2022 - 2024
Master's in Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
2021 - 2022
Deep Learning Research Engineer, Preimage
  • Reconstructing 3D scenes from sparse drone images
2020 - 2021
Visiting Researcher, CLVR Lab, University of Southern California (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)
2018
Research Intern, National University of Singapore (NUS)
2016 - 2020
B.Tech (with honors), IIIT Delhi