I am a PhD student at USC, advised by Prof. Jesse Thomason. My research interests are across NLP and robotics; primarily around why (how) language is necessary for (can be utilized in) robot learning and embodied AI. I think that problems under Embodied AI are yet more foundational, and hold deep-rooted benefits for the society.

Previously, I was an undergrad at IIT Kanpur, where I worked on topics relating to NLP and theoretical ML with Prof. Ashutosh Modi (IIT Kanpur), and Prof. Pengtao Xie (UC San Diego). I have spent some summers interning at Adobe Research, where I also received Adobe India WIT Scholarship 2020, NVIDIA Robotics Research, and Amazon Frontier AI and Robotics. I was also selected as a member of the RSS Pioneers 2025 Cohort.

I am on the Job Market. Please reach out with robotics relevant opportunities!