I defended my PhD thesis on December 2, 2019. [YouTube Video]
Recent News
Thu, 06/28/2018
I received the Best Student Paper award at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS).
This award is given to the best paper of the conference. The winner is selected from a group of finalists by an awards committee based on the quality of the final paper, oral presentation, and poster...
Fri, 05/18/2018
My paper (In-hand Manipulation via Motion Cones) is nominated for the best student paper award at RSS 2018.
The winner of the award will be declared at the conference in the last week of June.
Thu, 08/31/2017
I worked at ABB Corporate Research Center in Västerås, Sweden from May to Aug 2017.
As a research intern, I developed a trajectroy optimization framework for YuMi robot to perform assembly manipulation tasks.
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Tue, 07/11/2017
The patent application for 'two-phase gripper' got approved ! U.S. Patent No.: 9808936
We are pursuing this work further for making the invention more versatile and reliable.
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Fri, 03/03/2017
TechCrunch interviwed me recently on my research. Check out their short article and a video below!...
Sat, 10/08/2016
I recently saw that the new edition of Springer Handbook of Robotics has a dedicated paragraph for 'Extrnsic Dexterity' - the poject I am working on for last 4 years. [...
Sat, 08/08/2015
On 5th of August 2015, MIT showcased my research on the homepage.
MIT released a...
Sat, 07/12/2014
MIT news covered my work presented at ICRA 2014 where we were finalists for best research video award.
Find the video submitted to ICRA 2014 here https://youtu.be/WAPgjZCI1gI
Seems like a good start to my PhD program at MIT ;)
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