Hi!

I am a lecturer in the school of electrical engineering and robotics at the Queensland university of technology. I work with the QUT Centre for Robotics. Previously, I was a scientist at the soft transducers lab, LMTS and the laboratory of intelligent systems LIS at EPFL.

I received my PhD from the University of Bristol. My work was with the SoftLab, part of the Bristol Robotics Lab. It was supervised by Prof. Jonathan Rossiter and Dr. Andrew Conn. A copy of my doctoral thesis can be accessed here.

I obtained a masters’ degree in Robotics, Systems and Control from ETH Zurich. My thesis on optimizing legged robots was jointly with Disney Research. My bachelors degree is in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.

I have been building and programming robots for more than 10 years. I worked on applications in automated grasping, locomotion, wearables, healthcare, and soft robotics. My training includes a unique combination of skills in mechanics, electronics, programming, materials, mathematics, machine learning, and data analysis. My work resulted in the successful development of multiple devices, actuators, sensors, new materials, fabrication techniques, characterization methods and test benches. I presented my work at the top conferences and best journals of robotics and invented a new technology for grasping.

My research sits at the interface between biology and engineering. A common theme has been to discern biological design at multiple size scales through the modelling of natural systems and adapt it to robotic applications.

Check out some of my projects and go through my publications for a sample of my research.