I'm a third-year undergraduate student at Purdue University studying mechanical engineering and computer science (concentration in computational science and engineering).
Broadly, my interests lie in robotics, classical control theory, and computational design. I'm passionate about developing methods that facilitate seamless human-robot collaboration. Currently, I'm exploring enhancements to the code in the Vector Accelerated Motion Planning (VAMP) repository, originally developed by my mentor Zachary Kingston and collaborators. My goal is to enable robots to effectively consider human perspectives while performing real-time motion planning.
Currently working at the Cai Group, advised by Dr. Jie Cai at Herrick Laboratories. I spend most of my time at the CoMMA Lab, advised by Zachary Kingston, at Purdue University's Department of Computer Science.
I'll be joining Persona AI this summer as a mechanical engineering intern. Shoutout Jacob Zietek, Ali Ahmad, and Alexiy Buynitsky. I was also an UTA for ECE 20001: Linear Circuit Analysis I.
Sai Coumar, Gilbert Chang, Nihar Kodkani, Zachary Kingston
Foam is an open-source tool that automatically generates spherical approximations from URDF files, simplifying robot geometry modeling. It enhances collision checking and distance queries with minimal accuracy loss. Available as a Python library and containerized command-line app.
Website design inspired by Jacob Zietek, colors by UESC, fonts by Anthropic.
Edited April 27, 2025