I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where I completed my Ph.D. in Engineering Cybernetics in 2025 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Kostas Alexis and co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Davide Scaramuzza. My PhD focused on vision-driven navigation and control for multirotors in complex environments, massively parallelized simulation and rendering and sim2real transfer techniques.

I developed the Aerial Gym Simulator, a massively parallelized simulation and rendering framework for multirotors (now integrated into NVIDIA Isaac Lab), and co-developed UniPilot and the Unified Autonomy Stack, a modular hardware-software autonomy stack for diverse robots.

I was a key member of the winning Team CEREBRUS in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. I led the artifact detection subsystem and co-developed a multi-robot exploration path planner for heterogeneous robot teams. This endeavor culminated in a USD 2mn prize and involved integrating and deploying complex multi-robot teams for robust search-and-rescue operations in harsh, unstructured underground environments.

Education

Ph.D. in Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway (2025)
M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA (2021)
B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Goa, India (2020)

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