I was born and grew up in Kahatul, a
small village located 327 kilometers north east of Mumbai, Maharashtra. My mother tongue is Marathi but I also speak
English, Hindi and Spanish.
I consider myself to be extremely
fortunate, because my work such as it is simply entails doing what I love. As
long as I remember, I was mesmerized by instruments and machinery and
becoming an engineer was my dream. In 2002, I was accepted to the D. N. Patel
COE, North Maharashtra University in
India to study Instrumentation and Control Engineering. As an undergraduate
student, I had the opportunity to study a variety of topics related to
instrumentation, industrial devices, control systems, and to be honest, I could
not pick a favorite one. This can also be seen from the variety of courses I
attended and the projects I completed. During my last years of studies, I was
drawn into signal processing and control system design even though I was
interested in several diverse topics. For my diploma project, I chose to
work on programmable logic controller (PLC). I design and built the soft drink dispensing machine using PLC,
under the supervision of Professor Mohan Patel. In 2006, I graduated with a
bachelor degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering.
In August 2007, I joined the Electrical Engineering (EE) Department at the University of Bridgeport as
a Graduate student. I received Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical
Engineering from University of Bridgeport in 2008. A wise man once said
"No one is going to hand me success. I must go out and get it myself.
That's why I’m here, to dominate, to conquer; both the world and myself".
In 2010, I joined the PhD program in Computer Science
and Engineering at University of
Bridgeport. Currently, I am a PhD candidate working on the design
and implementation of heterogeneous swarm robots under the guidance of
Professor Tarek Sobh. My research focus is on the design, development and building
the hardware architecture of swarm robots with heterogeneity in sensory units,
communication and control, locomotion and manipulation. Even though my work
involves a lot of hardware implementation, my motivation stems from real
applications and my goal is to able to come up with concrete and implementable
solutions. I really hope (and I would definitely try) to turn my ideas into
reality. For more information about my research, please visit the Research and
Publications section of this website.
In my free time, I like listening to
music, watching movies, reading books, exploring new places and making stuff
(diy projects).
