About
I’m a Robotics PhD student at Arizona State University working across simulation-driven robotics, robot learning, sensing, control, and deployable hardware systems.
My current PhD research at the EcoRobotics Lab focuses on autonomous excavation and soil remediation as one application of field robotics. More broadly, I’m interested in building robotic systems that move from simulation to real-world hardware.
Before ASU, I worked on an RL-based table-tennis robot in NVIDIA Isaac Sim using PPO, developed simulation datasets in LeRobot format for NVIDIA GR00T N1 VLA model training, built a single-wheel rover slip testbed for sandy terrain with MATLAB EKF-based slip estimation, and worked as a Venture Fellow at NYU Tandon Future Labs on a robotic-assisted surgical catheter instrument.
My work sits at the intersection of robotics research, simulation, mechanical design, robot learning, and full-stack prototyping.
- Focus
- Simulation-driven robotics · robot learning · field systems
- Current
- EcoRobotics Lab, ASU — autonomous excavation & soil remediation
- Toolchain
- ROS 2 · Isaac Sim · Project Chrono · MoveIt · MATLAB
- Background
- Upsurge Labs · IIT Kanpur · NYU Future Labs
- Honors
- IEEE SPACE 2025 Best Paper · IEEE RO-MAN 2024 · U.S. provisional patent
Current
EcoRobotics Lab, ASU
Research
Autonomous soil remediation
Simulation
Isaac Sim, Chrono, MuJoCo
Robot Learning
PPO, VLA datasets, LeRobot
Field Robotics
Rover mobility and slip estimation
Venture
NYU Future Labs surgical catheter
Skills
Technical stack
Robotics, simulation, learning, controls, and prototyping tools I use across research and engineering projects.
Robotics
Simulation
AI / RL
Software
Mechanical / Hardware
Controls
Contact
Let's talk robotics
Open to research collaborations and conversations about autonomous excavation, robot learning, and field robotics.