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Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral fellow

University of Toronto (UofT), Canada and Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence (VIAI), Canada

RL for robotic control. Foundational models for imitaion learning

• Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for Surgical robotic tasks
• Multi-cam RL for robotic learning

PhD student

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

Developing soft object deformable simulator for robotic manipulation

• Clinical user study to test compare RL based control to human control for colonoscopy
• Finite element based methods for developing colonoscopy simulator

PhD student

University of Verona (UNIVR), Italy

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) for surgical robot control

• Constrained RL and formal verification for safety
• Imitation learning appraoches for learning surgical gestures from clinicians
• Control of Flexible robots

Master's student

University of Glasgow (UoG), Glasgow, UK

Deep RL control for robotic manipulation

• Hierarchical RL to decompose complex tasks into simpler options

PhD

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

Department of Automatic control

• Experimental design, Control theory

PhD

University of Verona (UNIVR), Italy

Department of Computer Science

• Deep Reinforcement learning, Deep unsupervised learning, Representation learning

MS

University of Glasgow (UoG), Glasgow, UK

School of Computing Science

• Robotics Foundation, Computer vision, Machine learning, Statistical analysis

Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

Schmidt Futures

Awarded the fellowship to pursue postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto and Vector Institute for AI.

Umberto Veronesi Fellowship

Umberto Veronesi Foundation, Italy

Awarded the fellowship to pursue postdoctoral research at the University of Verona on surgical computer vision.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions ITN Ph.D. fellowship

European Union's H2020, Research and Innovation

Awarded the fellowship to pursue joint doctoral studies at UNIVR and UPC.'

Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM) fellowship

European Commission

Awarded the fellowship to undertake Masters degree project at the University of Glasgow

Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) fellowship

National Institute of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

Awarded the fellowship for an internship at MBI, Singapore

Atal Incubation Centre

National Institute of Transforming India (NITI), Govt. of India

Team Lead: Secured funding of 1M USD for setting up an incubation center at IISER Pune, Oct 2019

INSPIRE Fellowship

Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

Awarded the fellowship for bachlor studies at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research.