about
after a struggle of 5 years, i graduated from bits pilani with a bachelors in electronics and a masters in mathematics. i've spent the last ~3 years as a software engineer in the startup ecosystem.
started as an early engineer at houseware back in late 2023, building agentic systems when agents were just an early concept in research papers. had a lucky exit as the startup got acquired, after which i spent almost a year and a half at launchdarkly learning how to build backend systems for extreme scale. then a short month with conscious engines, an ai lab working on proactive personal intelligence, after which i took the plunge and left the safety of my job to go full time into ai/robotics research. briefly joined primeintellect as a part time researcher, building rl environments where agents learn to solve robotic manipulation tasks.
my current focus is building robot brains ready for real world deployments. the research spans detecting model uncertainty, continual learning for language and action transformers in real environments, and the systems to control and communicate with robots.
on a broader level, i'm bullish on the inflection point in technology that lets us build generalist workers. we now have enough signals to take the research and engineer economically valuable systems out of it. it also makes me think about what the transition away from repetitive, menial work would look like for society.
apart from these specific focus areas, some spaces i am deeply curious about
- synthetic humanoids, and whether they become sleeves we can put a person into
- continual, omnipresent personal intelligence across consumer software and hardware, acting as second brains in our lives
- bio-enhanced humans, and how our species evolves from here
if you're working at the intersection of any of these domains, feel free to hit me up for a conversation!
when i'm not tinkering with robots or getting existential about the future, you can find me planning my next backpacking trip, breaking my legs training for a full marathon by the end of 2026, or getting back to singing.
feel free to reach out on twitter or linkedin.
oh, and here's my github.