Career
Gritt Robotics
Perception Lead
2025 – 2026
Led perception for robots that build utility-scale solar farms with top-10 US EPCs (Gritt Solar).
- Robots installing 1 MW of solar per day: 900 kg machines placing 50 kg panels at high speed, with zero breakages
- Segmentation and 6DoF pose estimation on the Gritt Foundation Model, running in deserts, marshes, rain, and snow
- Long-tail data curation for worker safety: mined rare poses from TBs of daily site data, improving low-pose detection recall by 1.6 points (paper) IROS 2026 Workshop
Intrinsic (Google)
Deep Learning Engineer
2022 – 2025
- #1-ranked vision foundation model on the BOP benchmark for 6DoF pose estimation (3PT paper) CVPR 2026 Highlight
- Open-sourced 100K+ image dataset for pose estimation research CVPR 2024
- 2 US patents granted (17/471,063 & 17/393,338) for pose estimation and rendering methods
- Demoed perception systems at major robotics expos Automate 2024 Automatica 2023
Akasha Imaging
Deep Learning Engineer
2021 – 2022
Early engineer at a Bay Area deep imaging startup (MIT News). Built core vision pipelines. Acquired by Alphabet → became Intrinsic (now Google).
- Towards Rotation Invariance in Object Detection (ICCV, 2021)
EXL
EXL Services
Consultant, Analytics
2016 – 2018
Data science consulting for retail and media clients. Built big data pipelines (65+ Tb, 50+ sources) and analytics dashboards.
Open Source
Education
University of Waterloo
Master of Mathematics (MMath), Computer Science
2018 – 2020
Thesis on computer vision & object detection under Prof. Lukasz Golab. Mitacs Accelerate Fellow. Attended CIFAR Deep Learning + Reinforcement Learning Summer School (2020). Reviewer for CVPR, AAAI, BMVC, NeurIPS, and PLOS ONE.
- Do More Stringent Policies Reduce Daily COVID-19 Case Counts? Evidence from Canadian Provinces (Economic Analysis and Policy, 2023)
- PocketView: Through-Fabric Information Displays (UIST, 2021)
- Sensitivity to Risk Profiles of Users When Developing AI Systems (LNCS/LNAI, 2020)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
B.Tech, Materials Science & Engineering
2012 – 2016
Research intern at Rutgers University under Prof. Vivek Singh and at Academia Sinica, Taiwan under Prof. Kuan-Ta Chen. Quiz Club coordinator.
Featured Work
Using Deep Imaging for Higher Resolution
MIT News, 2022
Computer Science Researchers Developing Through-Fabric Display Technology
University of Waterloo, 2021
Elsewhere
- Poetry — I write poems, sometimes about code, mostly not
- Photography — exhibited at 5th Mega Heritage Photo Exhibition, India Habitat Center, New Delhi (2016). Featured in iPhoneLife Magazine and "100 Phone Photographers to Follow on Instagram"
- 200dishes — cooked one dish from every country on earth
Advising & Investing
I occasionally advise and angel invest in early-stage robotics and applied ML companies. If you're building something interesting, reach out.
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