About
I work across dynamics, control, perception, and learning to build autonomous systems grounded in physical reality.
Profile
I am pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University, where I work as a Graduate Research Assistant on robot learning, vision-language navigation, manipulation, and predictive control.
I earned my B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Pulchowk Campus, IOE, Tribhuvan University in 2022. Before graduate school, I worked as an R&D Engineer at North Star Developer's Village.
Experience
Department of Mechanical Engineering · Ames, Iowa
Research on reinforcement learning for robotic arm manipulation, robot navigation using LLMs and VLMs, model predictive control, and differentiable predictive control.
Kathmandu, Nepal
Led a team of five working on autonomous navigation of wheeled robots in classroom environments. Developed visual SLAM, MPC navigation, frontier exploration, and person re-identification systems.
Kathmandu, Nepal
Analyzed two-wheeler suspension systems, developed a Python simulation, and modeled tire-road interaction through ADAMS–MATLAB co-simulation.
Technical range
ROS, ROS 2, MPC, CasADi, IPOPT, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Jetson Nano
PyTorch, reinforcement learning, sim2real, vision-language models, YOLO, DeepSort, OpenCV
Python, C, C++, JavaScript, MATLAB, NUMBA, SolidWorks, ANSYS, AutoCAD, ADAMS
Recognition
Explore publications and engineering projects across robotics, control, and AI.