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Research Assistant

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

I am a researcher in the field of optimal planning and decision-making in stochastic and constrained environments. My current research focuses on developing efficient and scalable algorithms for massive multi-agent systems and robotics.

PhD

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC)

Robotics

• Deep Generative Models
• Formal Methods in Robotics
• Reinforcement Learning
• Optimal Control
• Advanced Robotics
• Computer Vision
• Estimation of Dynamical Systems

Bachelors

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay)

Aerospace Engineering (Honors); Minor in Systems and Control Engineering

• Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Vehicles
• Stochastic and Networked Control
• Adaptive and Learning Control Systems

Department Fellowship

Department of Aerospace Engineering, UIUC

Awarded to Ph.D. students with outstanding academic and research achievements.

Student Travel Award

IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Chanakya Research Fellowship

IIT Bombay

Awarded for research on autopilot design for delivery drones.

ComTraQ-MPC: Meta-Trained DQN-MPC Integration for Trajectory Tracking with Limited Active Localization Updates

2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Capacity-Aware Planning and Scheduling in Budget-Constrained Monotonic MDPs: A Meta-RL Approach

arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.21249

Solving Truly Massive Budgeted Monotonic POMDPs with Oracle-Guided Meta-Reinforcement Learning

arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.07192

A Moral Imperative: The Need for Continual Superalignment of Large Language Models

arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.14683

Assured Collision Avoidance for Learned Controllers: A Case Study of ACAS Xu

AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum

Welfare Maximization Algorithm for Solving Budget-Constrained Multi-Component POMDPs

IEEE Control Systems Letters, Volume 7