Graduate Research Assistant The CHARISMA Robotics Lab, Oregon State University (Current)
Developing interaction of LLMs into robot-led mindfulness practices (MS Thesis expected June 2025)
Presented findings at the "Scarecrows in Oz: LLMS in HRI" workshop @ HRI 2024 conference
Demonstrated LLM-Speechify robot-guided meditation session at TAHRI 2024 conference
Mentored an undergraduate student for an Honors Thesis Project
Undergraduate Researcher National University of Singapore (Dec 2022 - May 2023)
Designed a Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (MASR) system
Improved speech recognition accuracy by 20% and reduced error rate by 15%
Grants and Fellowships
Artificial Intelligence Augmentation and Enhancement of Human Dialogue Oregon State University (July 2024 - June 2025)
Amount Awarded: $25,000
Lead PI: Thomas Field
Co PI: Heather Knight
My Role: Robotics and AI Engineer
This project, funded by the 2024 Transdisciplinary Research Seed Fund Program, aims to enhance human-machine and human-human interactions through an AI companion that recognizes users by voice, analyzes speech intent and sentiment, and provides real-time feedback. The AI companion supports communication in counseling, education, and leadership by offering insights and recommendations to improve relational outcomes and decision-making processes. The project involves collaboration with community partners, including OSU Counseling and Psychological Services, and includes explainability studies to understand the AI's decision-making processes and its impact on human interactions.
Work Experience
Robotics Developer Intern Bolt IoT Inventrom Private Limited, Bengaluru, India (Feb - Mar 2022)
Restructured a social problem statement and worked on robotics applications
Developed the Smart Assistive Stick, impressing the CEO
ROS Intern SmartInternz, Hyderabad, India (Jul - Aug 2021)
Developed simulation robot with URDF and Xacro modeling in Gazebo
Improved navigation accuracy by 20% using GMapping Navigation on ROS
Education
M.S. in Artificial Intelligence Oregon State University (CGPA: 3.7/4)(Expected June 2025)
B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering with specialization in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Vellore Institute of Technology (CGPA: 8.62/10) (2019-2023)
Projects
Temperature Monitoring Robot: Autonomous vehicle for remote temperature monitoring (Feb 2022)
PhonicVision: UI/UX design for Android app, improving navigation efficiency by 25% (Dec 2021)
Neural Machine Translation: Seq2seq model for English to Marathi translation with 90% accuracy (Nov 2021)
Diamond Price Predictor: ML model with 95% accuracy in predicting diamond prices (Apr 2021)