About Me

I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park, working in the GAMMA lab under the guidance of Dr. Dinesh Manocha. My research focuses on robotics, particularly in navigation and perception.

Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Robotics
  • Navigation
  • Perception
Education
  • PhD Robotics

    the University of Maryland, College Park

  • MEng Robotics

    the University of Maryland, College Park

Projects
Recent News
  • We have three papers accepted by ICRA 2025: BehAV, VLM-Social-Nav and GND.
  • I gave a lecture in UC riverside in Jan 2025.
  • I gave a lecture in the North Carolina State University in Nov 2024.
  • We have 3 papers accepted by IROS 2024.
Papers Under Submission
(2024). CSCPR: Cross-Source-Context Indoor RGB-D Place Recognition.
(2024). ET-Former: Efficient Triplane Deformable Attention for 3D Semantic Scene Completion From Monocular Camera.
(2024). On the safety concerns of deploying llms/vlms in robotics: Highlighting the risks and vulnerabilities.
Publications
(2025). GND: Global Navigation Dataset with Multi-Modal Perception and Multi-Category Traversability in Outdoor Campus Environments. In ICRA 2025.
(2025). VLM-Social-Nav: Socially Aware Robot Navigation through Scoring using Vision-Language Models. In ICRA 2025.
(2025). BehAV: Behavioral Rule Guided Autonomy Using VLMs for Robot Navigation in Outdoor Scenes. In ICRA 2025.
(2024). Deep Stochastic Kinematic Models for Probabilistic Motion Forecasting in Traffic. In IROS 2024.
(2024). DTG: Diffusion-based Trajectory Generation for Mapless Global Navigation. In IROS 2024.
(2024). PoCo: Point Context Cluster for RGBD Indoor Place Recognition. In IROS 2024.
(2024). Mtg: Mapless trajectory generator with traversability coverage for outdoor navigation. In ICRA 2024.
(2023). GrASPE: Graph based Multimodal Fusion for Robot Navigation in Outdoor Environments. In RA-L 2023.
(2023). MSVIPER. In JWAS 2023.
(2022). Adaptiveon: Adaptive outdoor local navigation method for stable and reliable actions. In RA-L 2022.
(2022). Terrapn: Unstructured terrain navigation using online self-supervised learning. In IROS 2022.
(2022). CrossLoc3D: Aerial-Ground Cross-Source 3D Place Recognition. In CVPR 2023.
(2022). Image-goal navigation in complex environments via modular learning. In RA-L 2022.
(2021). OF-VO: Efficient Navigation Among Pedestrians Using Commodity Sensors. In RA-L 2021.
(2021). Autonomous social distancing in urban environments using a quadruped robot. In IEEE Access.
(2020). DenseCAvoid: Real-time Navigation in Dense Crowds using Anticipatory Behaviors. In ICRA 2020.