Teaching & Mentoring

Teaching, Workshop, and Seminar

1. Instructed "Human-robot Interaction with Intent Prediction using Inverse Reinforcement Learning" and "Introduction to LLMs" courses for BHEL, Bangalore India, 2023.

2. Instructed "Introduction to LLMs" and "Human-robot Interaction" courses for Ashok Leyland, Bangalore India in 2023.

3. Conducted a workshop on the "Accurate Mathematical Modelling of Dataset for Forecasting" course in HAL-IISc Skill Development Program in 2021.

4. Instructed two courses on "Motion Planning for Autonomous Systems" and "Human-computer Interaction" under the guidance of Prof. Debasish Ghose and Prof. Pradipta Biswas.

5. Instructed two courses on "Robotics and Automation" and "Robotics Systems and Controls" at Jaypee University of Information Technology, 2021-23.

6. Invited as a keynote in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at Jaypee University of Information Technology on "Robotics & Automation: Industry 4.0", 2022.

Reviewer

1. IEEE RAS (Robotics and Autonomous Systems) International Conference on Robotics and Automation

2. The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 

3. ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interface

4. IEEE RAS Robotics and Automation Letters

5. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

Mentored Projects

Major Projects

1. Eye Gaze Prediction using Encoder-Decoder LSTM by Rishabh Gupta (MTech AI, 2023), Department of Computational Data Science, IISc Bangalore

2. Safe Human-Robot Collaboration with Intent Prediction using Imitation Learning by Swapnil Soni (MTech Smart Manufacturing), Department of Design and Manufacturing, IISc, Bangalore

3. Hologram-based Assembly and Disassembly with Intent Prediction by Harshratna Sawant  (MTech Smart Manufacturing), Department of Design and Manufacturing, IISc, Bangalore

Course Projects

1. Eye Gaze-based Target Prediction by GVS Mothish, Sudarshan Bandyopadhyay, and Pawan Gulia (MTech Robotics and Autonomous Systems), Human-Computer Interaction course by Prof. Pradipta Biswas

2. Vehicle Cruise Control under Dynamic Environment by Tushar Kurne, I Navin Kumar, Laxmikant Pai Angle (MTech Robotics and Autonomous Systems), Motion Planning for Autonomous Systems course by Prof. Pradipta Biswas and Prof. Debasish Ghose

3.  Safe Trajectory Planning of Mobile Robot in a Warehouse Environment by Ashwin S and Satyam Saha (MTech Robotics and Autonomous Systems), Motion Planning for Autonomous Systems course by Prof. Pradipta Biswas and Prof. Debasish Ghose

4. Path Planning for an Autonomous Vehicle Considering Different Uncertainty of Environment by Joshi Munjal Bhavinkumar, Vallury Sri Pavan RaviChand, Rahul Sharma (MTech Robotics and Autonomous Systems), Motion Planning for Autonomous Systems course by Prof. Pradipta Biswas and Prof. Debasish Ghose

Interns

1. Building user interface for a pointing task in virtual and mixed reality interface by Preetam Pati (IIIT Kalyani)

2. Motion planning for fixed base robotic manipulator from demonstrations by Arushi Khokhar (Kings College, London)

3. Hand data modeling for intent prediction during HRI by Ameya Patil (VIT Vellore)

4. Data collection, modeling, and analysis for human-robot handover task by Gyanig Kumar (University of Colorado, Boulder)