About Me
I am an assistant robotics professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Perception, Robotics, AI and Sensing (PRAISe) Lab at University of Colorado - Boulder. I graduated with doctoral and master's degrees in Computer Science and Robotics, respectively, from the University of Maryland. My research focuses on developing minimal perception architectures to enable onboard autonomy on robots as small as a credit card. I was also awarded the Ann G. Wylie Fellowship for outstanding dissertation for 2022-2023, the Future Faculty Fellowship 2022-2023, and the University of Maryland's Dean Fellowship 2018-2020. My work has been featured on the cover of Science Robotics, BBC, IEEE Spectrum, Voice of America, NVIDIA, Futurism, Maryland Today, Tech Crunch, and much more. I have also been a reviewer for T-PAMI, T-CI, RA-L, T-ASE, CVPR, ICRA, IROS, ICCV, and RSS, among other top journals and conferences. For more, please visit http://praisecu.github.io/ . Apart from research, I love to teach! In my spare time, I love to capture nature on my camera, especially landscapes and wildlife, create digital artwork, and watch/play competitive video games — Counter-Strike and Dota 2. You can also find my mother's artwork portfolio here.
Educational Lineage
Worked on Minmalist Perception framework for resource-constrained robots.
Worked on active perception principles for drone navigation.
Worked on robot walking algorithms and sensor design.