Interests

• Reading - biographies, physics, philosophy, business. Check out my bookshelf.
• Physics & astronomy - black holes, quantum mechanics, the origin of the universe.
• Traveling & hiking - chasing mountains, sunsets, and places off the beaten path.
• Startups - fascinated by how things get built from zero. Let’s chat!
• Chess - ELO 1644. Always looking for a game.
• Football - watching, playing, and FIFA
• Gym + racket sports (still a noob)
• Photography - places through my lens
• Food - chasing good food & hidden gems (my food diary)

Awards and Honors

2025
Y Combinator AI Startup School
Best Paper Award, NoC Workshop @ ICRA
2023
Heidelberg Laureate Fellowship - got to meet Turing and Fields Medal winners
2022
Best Demo Paper, ACM MM Asia
2019
Dean's Award for Academic Performance, IIIT-Delhi (4 semesters)
Dean's Award for Innovation, R&D, IIIT-Delhi
INAE Fellowship from IISc
2018
6th / 70 international teams, AUVSI SUAS, Maryland
2017
2nd Place, CanSat Competition, DTU
2016
Chairman's Merit Scholarship, IIIT-Delhi (top 4 / 278)
2015
KVPY Scholarship (top 0.3%)

Invited Talks

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

Side Quests

• Grad Peer: Curated Resources for GRE/TOEFL
• Autonomous Driving Demonstration on Mahindra’s e2o from 2018
• Collaborate: Open-Source Project Management App
• ROS Workspace for Testing your Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms