mentorship

Courses I've taught and students I've mentored.

Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to guide and work with several undergraduate and master’s students, along with three teams from CMU’s Master of Science in Robotic Systems Development (MRSD) program.

Teaching

16-667: Autonomous Air Vehicle Design and Development — Fall 2024, Carnegie Mellon University. Teaching assistant for the course supporting CMU AirLab’s entry in the GoAero Prize competition. Lectured on autonomous obstacle avoidance for aerial vehicles. (CMU AirLab in GoAero · Meet Tartan Rescue)

16-761: Mobile Robots — Spring 2024, Carnegie Mellon University. Teaching assistant. Designed and graded assignments, and demonstrated live drone flight in class.

Mentees

Students I’ve had the privilege to mentor:

MRSD Teams

Master of Science in Robotic Systems Development teams I’ve mentored:

  • FireFlies (2022) — Arjun Chauhan, Kevin Gmelin, Sabrina Shen, Manuj Trehan, Akshay Venkatesh
  • EmberEye (2024) — Gangadhar Nageswar, Ishir Roongta, Jaskaran Singh Sodhi, Kavin Kailash Ravie, Shashwat Chawla
  • SMoRes (2025) — Abhishek Iyer, Amy Jiang, Aayush Fadia, Ranai Srivastav, Swastik Mahapatra