Experience

I've had the opportunity to work on autonomy for a variety of exciting domains - from satellites to reactor systems to autonomous trucks!

Isuzu autonomous truck with Applied Intuition sensor suite on a Japanese highway
Current

Behaviour Planning Engineer

Applied Intuition · Tokyo · Aug 2025 – Present

Behaviour planning for autonomous trucking — developing and validating planning algorithms in simulation and on-road settings for highway driving. Handled construction zone avoidance, routing and threat assessment for collision mitigation.

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R&D

AI Researcher

Honda R&D Tokyo · Oct 2022 – Aug 2025

Cooperative behaviour planning and agent prediction for next-generation AD. Clothoid path refinement, MPC stop-line speed planning, and multi-agent negotiation in congested scenes. Co-inventor on JP patents in path refinement and prediction for obstacle avoidance.

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Student team

Technical Team Member

Student Satellite Program, IIT Bombay · Mumbai · Mar 2018 – Jan 2019

Worked on the attitude determination and control subsystem for IIT Bombay's student satellite, contributing to a modular closed-loop simulation framework and on-board-in-loop validation of control algorithms.

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Internship

R&D Intern · Learning-Based Control

ABB Corporate Research Center · Bangalore · Jun – Aug 2021

Online control via reinforcement learning and approximate dynamic programming, learning from closed-loop data to maximize estimated future rewards.

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Internship

Junior Data Scientist

Capgemini SE · Bangalore · May – Jul 2020

ML/NLP for an incident forecasting tool — topic modelling, classification, and time-series / LSTM approaches for support ticket prediction.