I am a Ph.D. candidate at the BMW Group and the University of Glasgow working on Visuo-Tactile Perception for Safe Human-Robot Interaction and Object-Robot Manipulation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mohsen Kaboli and Prof. Dr. Ravinder Dahiya. My Ph.D. research focuses on enabling intelligent agents to make use of the complementary sensing modalities such as vision and touch while leveraging active perception and learning methodologies to efficiently interact with the environment.

Previously, I have worked as a robotics engineer at the Dynamic Interaction Control group at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova Italy from 2018 to 2020. I graduated from the European Masters on Advanced Robotics (EMARO+), an Erasmus Mundus Master’s program at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France and University of Genova, Italy in September 2018. I worked on my Master's thesis on task planning for flexible human-robot collaboration frameworks in a manufacturing environment at the Schaeffler Group. I have been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Consortium Scholarship by the European Union for my master's program. I earned my bachelor's degree in engineering with highest distinctions in 2016 from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, India.