“Full self-driving is amazing- until it isn't.”

I am a PhD Researcher at the Robotics Research Center (RRC), IIIT Hyderabad, advised by Prof. K. Madhava Krishna and co-advised by Prof. Arun Kumar Singh.

My research focuses on augmenting machine learning with classical methods, particularly in motion planning and navigation. My early work explored end-to-end training of perception and planning to address objective mismatch, a direction that has now become common in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. Advancing this paradigm, I am currently exploring methods to augment generative trajectory planners with optimization-based solvers to enable safety guarantees by construction rather than test-time refinement.

• Jan 2026Teaching Assistant EC4.403: Robotics Planning and Navigation, Spring 2026.
• Jan 2026MonoMPC accepted at IEEE RA-L 2026 (to be presented at ICRA 2026).
• Oct 2025Presented SparseLoc and Diffusion-FS at IROS 2025, Hangzhou, China.
• Oct 2024Presented LeGo-Drive at IROS 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• Aug 2024Selected as a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist, India
• May 2024Organized RRC Summer School, 2024