Senior Autonomy Navigation EngineerFremont, CA

Supernal2023-Present

• Designing and developing safe and certifiable navigation solutions for autonomous flying vehicles

Postdoctoral ResearcherStanford, CA

NAVLab, Stanford University2021-2022

• Led and supervised multiple projects related to safe navigation and robust state estimation for autonomous robotic systems

Research InternMountain View, CA

NASA Ames Research CenterSummer 2017

• Developed software for vision-based autonomous indoor navigation for UAVs, including on-board object detection to detect, pick and drop daily household items [video][code]

Research InternMountain View, CA

NASA Ames Research CenterSummer 2016

• Led a team of 3 student interns to develop visual-tag-based autonomous UAV navigation while avoiding obstacles detected by proximity sensors [video][slides][code]
• Evaluated the performance of existing LiDAR-based SLAM algorithms, which eventually shaped my M.S. thesis work

Visiting Research StudentShrivenham, UK

Cranfield UniversitySummer 2013

• Improved ground vehicle dynamics in Virtual Battle Space (VBS) by importing high-fidelity models from IPG Carmaker, resulting in an improved training experience for VBS users

Research InternBangalore, India

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)Summer 2012

• Evaluated various existing localization algorithms for the then upcoming Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System