1) Title of the project: Embedded system based fault tolerant control and autonomous navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Funded by DST (through TIHAN, IIT Hyderabad). Role: PI. (Completed)
2) Title of the project: Identification of Salient Structural Elements in Buildings. Funded by DST (through IHUB, IIIT Hyderabad). Role: PI. (Phase 1 completed, Phase 2 Ongoing)
3) Title of the project: Robotics course modules. Funded by Rapyuta Robotics Co. Ltd. Tokyo, Japan. Role: Co-PI. (Completed)
4) Title of the project: Secure Drones: Analyze, Deploy and Decide Cryptographic modules in UAVs. Funded by DST (through C3IHUB, IIT Kanpur). Role: Co-PI. (Completed)
5) Title of the project: Towards Bird-like Drones using Polymer-based Artificial Muscles. Funded by TCS (through KCIS, IIIT Hyderabad). Role: Co-PI. (Completed)
6) Title of the project: Drone-based Aerial Manipulation with Human-in-the-Loop. Funded by DST (through IHFC, IIT Delhi). Role: Co-PI. (Completed)
7) Title of the project: Online planner for UTM. Funded by Rockwell Collins India Pvt. Limited. Role: PI. (Completed)
8) Title of the project: Drone-based inspection studies for partially closed surfaces. Funded by AIRBUS India Pvt. Ltd. Role: PI. (Completed)
9) Title of the project: Capacity building for human resource development in Unmanned Aircraft System. Funded by MeitY, Govt. of India. Role: PI (Ongoing).
10) Title of the project: Design and development of a multifunctional underactuated mechanism with grasping, perching and adaptive landing skills for drone applications. Funded by ARDB, Govt. of India. Role: Co-PI (Ongoing).
11) Title of the project: Audio-SLAM enabled autonomous collaborative navigation of millibots in GPS denied indoor environments. Funded by DRDO, Govt. of India. Role Co-PI (ongoing).
Doctor of Philosophy in Flight Dynamics & Control,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2015.
Master of Technology in Process Control & Instrumentation
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, 2008.
Bachelor of Technology in Electrical & Electronics Engineering
University of Calicut, Kerala, India, 2006.
Research Fellow,
Engineering Product Design,
Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Duration: July 2019 to Feb 2020
Research Fellow, Computational Intelligence Laboratory,
School of Computer Science and Engineering,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Duration: July 2018 to June 2019.
Research Fellow, ST Engineering - NTU Corporate Laboratory,
School of Electrical and Electronic and Engineering,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Duration: July 2016 to June 2018.
Research Assistant, Faculty of Science and Technology,
University of Macau, Macau, China
Duration: Jan 2016 to March 2016.
IISc Research Associate, Department of Aerospace Engineering,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Duration: Jan 2015 to Dec 2015.
Sep 2008 - Dec 2009: Assistant Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Mumbai, India.