I like to think of myself as a tinkerer. I like to take things apart, see how they work and build from scratch.

I have been trained in Computer Science, Business, Entrepreneurship and Economics during my Bachelors at Purdue University and Masters at New York University.

These days you can find me tinkering with robots and AI for my PhD at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

In my free time, I like to hike, read, build software, socialize, travel, and paint.

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Publications

• Zhou, Y., Shetye, Y., Super, D., Quang, L., Milzman, J., Azad,A., Dhake, D., Mao, J., Nieto-Randa, C., & Loianno, G. (2025). ARGOS: A Unified Inference Framework for Deploying Decentralized Multi-Robot Collaborative Learning. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. (Submitted)

• Kiper, B., Dey, N., Azad, A., & Ergan, S. (2024). Evaluating GAN Architectures for Generating Images of Defective Façades. ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering

Work Experience

• WPI Aerial-robot Control and Perception Lab: I have joined WPI ACP lab as PhD Robtics Engineering student!

• NYU Agile Robotics And Perception Lab: Initially, I was responsible for creating and maintaining Docker/Singularity images for for the lab’s pipeline on various platforms (Dev-Ops adjacent role). Later, I conducted research, performed real world multi-robot experiments in front of key stakeholders, implemented new features and troubleshot multi-robot collaborative systems.

• NYU Building Informatics and Visualization Lab: I did some data engineering work along with fine tuning Segment Anything Model (SAM), and training Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN) from scratch for object detection and segmentation tasks on building facades. Our efforts got us 3rd Place Prize in NYU Tandon Research Excellence Exhibit 2024.

• MindsDB: I integrated and fixed many services for MindsDB platform including Milvus, NPM, SAP ERP, Lightdash, PyPi, Apache Doris, Xata, Pinecone, PyCaret and Shopify during Hacktoberfest 2023.

• Central Road Research Insitute of India: I designed and built two Docker-compatible CRUD applications using FastAPI, React, Flask, Nginx, and PostgreSQL. The applications involved geographical data processing, data ingestion, and report generation modules.

• Purdue University: I was an undergraduate teaching assistant for CS-252 Systems Programming course involving programming low level utilities like shell and malloc in C. I conducted labs, held office hours and graded students.

• Cummins: I developed a microservice in AWS Lambda and DynamoDB along with developer SDK in Java for internal use. I also won 3rd Place Prize with a team of 4 other members for an intern hackathon to integrate DevSecOps into company’s workflow. My work involved writing the policy document for the competition.

Code

• AnkiMoon: A tool that turns Moon+ Reader highlights to polished Anki flashcards automatically.

• Simple Static Site Generator: A rudimentary static site generator built with Python with support for Markdown and Jupyter notebooks.

• Destined: A feature-full to-do application where you own the data with usable features.

• Candle Grey: A dark monochrome color scheme for Vim text editor. Something simple and less distracting.