I am a Lockheed Martin Endowed Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Previously, I was an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Robotics Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). I earned my PhD in Robotics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I was a member of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM).
My research focuses on solving fundamental challenges for autonomous robots to safely operate in dynamic, unstructured real-world settings. I have several years of experience in industry as an embedded systems engineer that informs my research, teaching, and service. I regularly teach undergraduate and graduate level courses and laboratories in the areas of Robotics, Mechatronics, Controls, and Embedded Systems. My Erdös Number is 5.
Recent News
Jan '25: Paper accepted at the 2025 American Control Conference (ACC)!
Sep '24: Congrats to Chinmayee Prabhakar on successfully defending her thesis!
Jul '24: Paper accepted at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)
Jun '24: Honored to be awarded the 'Lockheed Martin Endowed Professorship' for individual research contributions.
Jun '24: I'll be serving as the chair for the 'AI Reasoning Methods for Robotics' session at the 21st IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2024).
May '24: Our undergraduate research team qualified in the simulation stage (ranked in the top 10 out of 39 teams) for the 2024 ACC Self-Driving Car Student Competition and will compete in the hardware stage in Toronto in July.
May '24: Paper accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)!
May '24: Paper accepted at the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2024)!
May '24: Congrats to Akshay Jaitly on successfully defending his thesis!
Apr '24: Two papers accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2024)!
Jan '24: Paper accepted at the 2024 American Control Conference (ACC)!
Dec '23: Congrats to Vishrut Bohara on successfully defending his thesis!
Jun '23: I'll be joining the Electrical Engineering Department at Cal Poly as an Assistant Professor, starting in Fall 2023. If you are in the SLO area I would love to chat!
May '23: Received the Rho Beta Epsilon Award for Excellence in Robotics Education!
May '23: Congrats to Rohith Venkataramanan on successfully defending his thesis!
Apr '23: I have been awarded the Class of ’57 Teaching Development Travel Grant!
Mar '23: Paper accepted at the 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition!
Nov '22: I will be serving as the lead judge in WPI's 2023 Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE) for the Robotics Engineering, Cyberphysical Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering areas.
Sep '22: I will be serving as a judge for the MassTLC's Tech Top 50 in the categories of Technology of the Year: Advanced Manufacturing and Technology of the Year: Robotics.
Jul '22: Paper accepted to the Wiley Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing!
May '22: Paper accepted to the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control! Check out the paper and the video.
Mar '22: Paper accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (TCST)! Check out the paper and the video.
Jul '21: I will be joining the Robotics Engineering Department at WPI as an Assistant Teaching Professor, starting in Fall 2021.
Jun '21: I successfully defended my PhD dissertation!
Aug '20: Paper accepted at CDC '20! Check out the paper and the video.
Jul '20: In less than three months, more than 9000 students from 149 countries have enrolled in our online Mechatronics course on edX! Check out the news here: Learning Mechatronics by Doing Mechatronics.
Jun '20: Paper accepted at IROS '20! Check out the paper and the video.
Apr '20: Our lab-based online Mechatronics course is launched on edX: The Mechatronics Revolution: Fundamentals and Core Concepts.
Jan '19: Paper accepted at ACC '19! Check out the paper and the video.
Jun '18: Paper accepted at IROS '18! Check out the paper and the video.
Jan '18: Paper accepted at ICRA '18! Check out the paper and the video.
Apr '17: Our research is featured on IEEE Spectrum, ASME and BBC News!
Mar '14: Paper accepted at CEC '14! Check out the paper and the video.
Jun '13: Paper accepted at IROS '13! Check out the paper and the video.