Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Robotics), University of Cincinnati (on-going)
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2017
B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Pune, 2014

Work experience

May 2017 - Present: Graduate Researcher
- CDS Lab, University of Cincinnati
- Adivsors: Dr. Manish Kumar and Dr. Ali A. Minai
January 2019 - April 2019: Instructor
- Instructed the graduate-level course of Robot Control Design in College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Cincinnati.
August 2016 - April 2017: Student Worker
- University of Cincinnati
August 2014 - July 2015: Software Engineer
- Dassault Systemes

Publications

Constraint handling in firefly algorithm

Robot swarm for efficient area coverage inspired by ant foraging: The case of adaptive switching between brownian motion and lévy flight

Self-Organized Circle Formation around an Unknown Target by a Multi-Robot Swarm using a Local Communication Strategy

One-Shot Recognition of Manufacturing Defects in Steel Surfaces

Skills

Programming: Python, MATLAB, Julia programming language
Software: PyTorch, Tensorflow, OpenCV, ROS, Gazebo Sim, Mujoco, Pybullet
Hardware: PixHawk Autopilot, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Nvidia Jetson

Teaching

Robot Control Design

Talks

Multi-object Tracking using Computer Vision and Deep Learning

September 10, 2018