Interests

• Reading (autobiographies, biographies, science, self-help, almost anything)
• Physics, Astronomy, Robotics (always up for an insightful physics discussion)
• Traveling & Hiking
• Startups (love discussing about startups, reach out if you wanna chat!)
• Chess (ELO: 1644)
• Football (watch + play + fifa)
• Gym, Table-Tennis, Tennis (I’m still a noob)

Awards and Honors

• AI Startup School, Y Combinator, 2025
• Best Paper Award at NoC Workshop, ICRA 2025
• Heidelberg Laureate Fellowship 2023
• Best Demo Paper Award at ACM MM Asia 2022
• Dean’s Award for Excellent Academic Performance, IIIT-Delhi
• Chairman’s Merit Scholarship, IIIT-Delhi
• Dean’s Award for Innovation, Research, and Development, IIIT-Delhi
• Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Fellowship
• Placed 6/70 International Teams in AUVSI SUAS 2018, Maryland, USA
• 2nd Place: CanSat Development and Deployment Competition 2018 at DTU
• KVPY Scholarship 2015

Invited Talks

• Real-World Robot Intelligence for Mission-Ready Deployment, GTC, DC – 2025
• From Pixels to Action: Rapidly Building and Adapting AI Robot Behaviors, SIGGRAPH, Vancouver – 2025
• Introduction to Robot Simulation, GTC, San Francisco – 2025
• Oral Talk, ICRA, Atlanta – 2025
• Neural-Symbolic Paper Reading, CMU – 2023
• Oral Talk, Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs), Montreal – 2023
• Vision India, ICVGIP’20, IIT Jodhpur – 2020
• Winter School on AI, IIIT-Delhi – 2019
• Computer Vision and Pattern Discovery Group, Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR – 2019

More…

• Grad Peer: Curated Resources for GRE/TOEFL
• Autonomous Driving Demonstration on Mahindra’s e2o from 2018
• ROS Workspace for Testing your Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms