I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, working with Prof. Chris Atkeson. 

Earlier, I was a Postdoctoral Scientist at Amazon Robotics. I earned my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington (UW), advised by Prof. Ashis Banerjee. Before joining the Ph.D. program, I was an Operations Officer at Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. in Mangalore, India. I obtained my B.Tech in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar.

My research focuses on automating expertise, aiming to transfer human-level proficiency into autonomous systems across diverse task domains. In my dissertation, I demonstrated that topological tools can mirror key aspects of human perception as currently understood. Building on this foundation, I am developing methods that enable robots to leverage practical human know-how. The approach is domain-agnostic and leverages large language models to distill tacit, context-rich expertise and convert it into machine-actionable guidance. Currently, I am testing these ideas on a 3D printer, i.e., a robot with filament.