Experiences

Research Intern

May 2026 - Present
Vision and AI Lab, IISc Bangalore | Guide: Prof. Venkatesh Babu
  • Working on Data-efficient Deep Learning for Vision Models.
  • Trying to understand the behaviour of image data and how it scales with data/compute.
  • Exploring scalable continual learning methods for vision models.

Research Intern

May 2025 - Aug 2025
ARMS Lab, IIT Bombay | Guide: Prof. Leena Vachhani
  • Worked on Safe Robotic Exploration and Navigation among human crowds.
  • Curated human-navigation datasets and implemented trajectories to human agents in Gazebo simulation.
  • Developed a topological indoor mapping framework with a coupled planner and controller.
  • Implemented and tested navigation frameworks on the Turtlebot3 hardware.

Vision Head

April 2024 - Present
AGV.AI | Guide: Prof. Debashish Chakravarty
  • Leading a the vision vertical of an UG research group working on robotics and autonomous vehicles.
  • Lead a team to compete at the Roboracer Sim Racing League @ CDC-TF 2026 where we secured 7th place globally.
  • Worked on Monocular Depth Estimation and Semantic Segmentation for Edge AI devices.
  • Implemented planning and control pipelines for F1tenth racing simulations.
  • Worked on RL and imitation learning algorithms.

Publications

Visual Robustness and Neural Alignment in a Shared Foraging Task: The Mouse vs. AI Benchmark
Schneider, Canzano, Hou, Peng, Deepu, Karan, et al.
NeurIPS 2026 Evaluations and Datasets Track Under Review
Paper
An Integrated Beetle Antennae Search–Enabled Navigation Framework for Omnidirectional AGV Mobile Robots in Unknown Environments
Moshayedi AJ, Roy AS, Karan U, Zhang M, Bassir D.
EAI Endorsed Trans AI Robotics [Internet]. 2026 Feb.
Paper
Safe Indoor Exploration and Sparse Topological Mapping with Integrated Planning and Control
Krutarth Trivedi, Utsab Karan, Advaith Sudarshan and Leena Vachhani.
Presented at the IEEE Indian Control Conference (ICC), Bangalore, Dec 2025.
Paper

Achievements

  • 2nd in Robust Visual Foraging Competition @ NeurIPS 2025 [Link]

  • 5th in Qualification and 7th Globally — Roboracer Sim Racing League @ CDC-TF 2025 [Link]

  • 4th place in Hardware Modeling in General Championship 2025 [Link]

  • 1st in Qualification and 9th Globally — Roboracer Sim Racing League @ ICRA 2025 [Link]

  • Ranked 15 among 124k candidates in WBJEE 2023

  • Ranked 1592 among 190k candidates in JEE Advanced 2023

  • Ranked 1786 among 1.27M candidates in JEE Mains 2023