Hello!

I’m Aparajito, an incoming Ph.D. student in Robotics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I currently conduct research on 3D perception, scene understanding, natural language instruction following for mobile manipulation, and reinforcement learning for skill coordination as part of 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 unexplored environments.

Prior to my graduate studies at the University of Michigan, I was a Software Development Engineer at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies and Robotics. As 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 platforms, 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.