I am a Research Engineer at the UF Intelligent Clinical Care Center (IC3). My research focuses on developing AI-enabled avatar-human and avatar-scene interactions in Mixed Reality. I also work on developing explainable AI algorithms to enhance the interpretability of ML models, particularly in the healthcare field.

I completed my PhD at the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Lab at Vanderbilt University. My research there focused on developing motion planning algorithms using optimization and machine learning techniques that efficiently and naturalistically map locomotion and human-object interactions between remote environments in Mixed Reality (MR). The goal was to achieve realistic, collaborative telepresence-like interaction, that is able to simulate in-person interactions through life-sized photorealistic avatars. I am fortunate to have been advised by Nilanjan Sarkar during my PhD and Marjorie Skubic during my master’s degree.

Education

• Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 2024
• M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2018
• B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, India, 2015