I'm currently a PhD student in Robotics at the University of Michigan, working with Professor Elliott Rouse in the Neurobionics Lab. My research focuses on robot codesign: how a robot’s mechanical design and control policy can co-evolve inside simulation instead of being engineered one after the other. Before starting the PhD, I spent 2021 to 2025 as a project lead and research engineer in the same lab, leading the Open-Source Leg ecosystem, developing the version 2.0 hardware, and building the software stack that lets researchers interface with the platform. The project is now used by more than 25 research groups worldwide.

My work has moved between hardware, simulation, and control. As a private consultant for the Robotics and AI Institute, I worked on the co-design of the next-generation Ultra Mobility Vehicle and developed an open-source Python package for connecting parametric CAD assemblies to simulation frameworks like Isaac Sim and MuJoCo. Before Michigan, I earned my BTech in Production Engineering at NIT Trichy with a minor in Computer Science, led Spider Tronix, and worked on research internships at DRDO/DEBEL and IIT Madras spanning powered exoskeleton simulation, gait-cycle modeling, and impedance control for bilateral teleoperation.