How I Think
Most robotics companies treat perception as a preprocessing step — a box that spits out coordinates. I think that's exactly backwards. Perception is the bottleneck. It's the thing that determines whether your robot can handle the real world or only works in a cage.
The gap between a demo and a product in robotics is almost always a perception problem. You don't need better planners. You need eyes that actually work.
I've spent my career closing that gap: building foundation models that generalize to unseen objects, writing CUDA kernels that run in single-digit milliseconds, and shipping systems that work in production — not just in simulation.
Career
Gritt Robotics
Perception Lead
2024 – Present
Leading perception systems for autonomous robotic operations. Own the full vision stack.
Intrinsic (Google)
Deep Learning Engineer
2022 – 2024
- #1-ranked vision foundation model on the BOP benchmark for 6DoF pose estimation ICCV 2025
- 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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