Hello!

I’m Aparajito, a second year master’s student in Robotics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I currently conduct research on natural language instruction following for mobile manipulation, spatiotemporal reasoning and perception, and hierarchical skill planning as part of the the Mapping and Motion Lab advised by Professor Bernadette Bucher. Broadly, my objective is to develop robots that leverage human-like behavior to interpret and act in dynamic environments.

Prior to my graduate studies at Michigan Robotics, I was a Software Development Engineer at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies and Robotics. I was part of the team responsible for driving task planning and robot allocation for the 1,000,000+ mobile robots in Amazon’s warehouse network. I have been directly involved in designing large-scale software solutions for some of Amazon’s latest robotic solutions, such as Sequoia.

I earned my Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 2022, double majoring with honors in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. At Cornell, I was a research assistant at the EmPRISE Lab advised by Professor Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, where I worked on whole-arm tactile sensing for robotic manipulators. I was also a teaching assistant for a graduate-level course in embedded operating systems taught by Professor Joseph Skovira and a team leader for the Cornell Cup Robotics project team.

In my spare time, I like to play the guitar, read, and ski! If you have interesting ideas for robot perception or want to jam out to rock music, feel free to send me an email.