I am a Senior Research Scientist at FieldAI, where I work on safe and reliable autonomous systems.
Research Overview: My research focuses on building autonomous systems that can safely operate in shared autonomy settings. I work on neurosymbolic approaches to decision-making under uncertainty, combining learned models with formal safety specifications and rule-based reasoning. My work spans behavior prediction, risk-aware planning, out-of-distribution robustness, and learning from failure data. Application domains include aerial autonomy, autonomous driving, and embodied AI.
During my PhD, I collaborated with NVIDIA Research (Dr. Marco Pavone) and Microsoft Research (Dr. Ashish Kapoor).
Education: I received my PhD in Robotics from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in May 2025, advised by Dr. Sebastian Scherer. I hold a Masters in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and a Masters and Bachelors in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kanpur.
Beyond Research: I am passionate about aviation. I hold an FAA Private Pilot License and am the Founding President of The Flying Club at CMU.
Research in News
- AI-Powered Vision System Helps Drones Navigate Safely, CMU News, July 2025 [Link]
- Move over, autopilot: This AI can avoid other planes, Popular Science, Sept 2022 [Link]
- CMU's AI pilot lands in the news, Practical AI – Episode #189, Sept 2022 [Link]
- Drones bearing parcels deliver big carbon savings, Nature, Aug 2022 [Link]
- Researchers Develop AI Pilot for Navigating Crowded Airspace, Aviation Today, Aug 2022 [Link]
- AI Pilot Can Navigate Crowded Airspace, CMU School Of Computer Science, Aug 2022 [Link]
- Flying Club To Promote Aviation at CMU, The Piper, June 2021 [Link]
- The Flying Club Has Taken Off The Piper, October 2022 [Link]
- CMU-Africa Students Explore Aviation Collaborations with CMU Pittsburgh Club, The Piper, November 2023 [Link]