Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation titled 'Advancing Robot Sensing, Planning, and Adaptability for Autonomous Medical Interventions' in June 2025.
Selected as an RSS Pioneer in April 2025.
Paper 'Incremental RL for Automating Multiple Surgical Tasks' published in September 2024.
Paper 'SURESTEP: An Uncertainty-Aware Trajectory Optimization Framework to Enhance Visual Tool Tracking for Robust Surgical Automation' accepted to IROS 2024 (July 2024).
Paper 'Uncertainty-Aware Trajectory Optimization for Robust Surgical Automation' published in April 2024.
Released implementation of Knowledge-Grounded RL algorithms on GitHub in December 2023.
Paper 'Flexible Attention-Based Multi-Policy Fusion for Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning' accepted to NeurIPS 2023 (September 2023).