CV

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Electrical & Computer Engineering

• System-on-Chip Design
• Embedded Systems
• Digital System Design Automation
• Reinforcement Learning
• AI Hardware
• Linear Algebra
• Computational Models and Methods (DSA)

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

University of Mumbai, Mumbai

Electronics Engineering

Project Research Assistant

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Designed an Tested a complete sensory avionics suite, along with various payloads for a tethered aerostat system

• Project HERCARA

Neuro-LIFT: A Neuromorphic, LLM-based Interactive Framework for Autonomous Drone FlighT at the Edge

• Fine-tuned LLM to predict maneuver feasibility
• System capable of adapting to environmental changes in real-time and aborting maneuvers in flight, if necessary
• Published at IJCNN 2025

Real-Time Neuromorphic Navigation: Guiding Physical Robots with Event-Based Sensing and Task-Specific Reconfigurable Autonomy Stack

• Video available here: youtu.be/9Gnjpb1k2Lo
• Presented at ICRA@40 2024

SHIRE: Enhancing Sample Efficiency using Human Intuition in REinforcement Learning

• improves sample efficiency of across all tested environments by >25%
• Transfers across training algorithms
• Published at ICRA 2025

FEDORA: A Flying Event Dataset fOr Reactive behAvior

• First-of-its-kind fully synthetic dataset
• >2x higher data rates as compared to state-of-the-art
• Published at IROS 2024