About Me

Currently, I am a research scientist at Experiqs Pvt. Ltd. At Experiqs, we assist the industrial RnD sector as an external research partner. In the past few months, our robotics team worked on a novel crane stabilization controller in collaboration with multiple industrial partners, assembling and algorithm development of a UAV with cutting arm, as well as proposal drafting and prospecting alongside the business development team of Experiqs for providing more RnD services. In also have postdoctoral experience with the Centre of Excellence in Oil, Gas and Energy (CoEOGE), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). In this role, I am developing a novel software solution for estimating the trajectory of a Pipeline Inspection Gauge (PIG) for the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL). The work addresses multiple technical and logistical challenges that require constrained optimization for estimating the trajectory of a strapdown inertial navigation system. I have my doctoral degree from IITB-Monash Research Academy, a joint PhD programme of IIT Bombay (India) and Monash University (Australia). During my PhD, I worked in colaboration with Monash Institute of Railway Technology (Monash-IRT), to investigate optimization techniques for developing network based planning solutions for inspecting railway tracks alongside the scheduled trains using multiple heterogeneous instrumented wagons. I have a specialisation in Control Systems from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kgp) with a background in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Durgapur (NIT Dgp).

My research interests: Optimization - Offline Trajectory Estimation, Trajectory Optimization, Dynamic Programming, Column Generation, Branch-and-cut, Benders’ decomposition, Deep Reinfrocement Learning; and Control - Extended Kalman Filter, Constrained Optimal Control.

Systems/setups of interest: Strapdown Inertial Navigation System (considering Earth’s manifold and rotation), Multi-agent time-dependent network, Quadruped, Robotic Arm, Inverted-cart pendulum, Fixed-wing and rotary-wing drones, Unicycle (differential-drive).