Senior Research Engineer                        Sep 2024 - Present

Nvidia Research - Generalist Embodied Agent Research, Santa Clara, California, USA

• Core member in Project Groot, build foundation models for embodied agents in virtual and physical worlds.
• Work on large-scale behavior cloning, reinforcement learning, simulation & real, data pipeline & flywheel.

Research Staff Engineer                        Aug 2023 - Sep 2024

Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) - RAIL, University of California Berkeley, USA

• Work with Prof Sergey Levine. Work on ML research and aiding in engineering, impl and eval setups.
• Work and Research on Imitation learning, Reinforcement learning, and robotics foundation model.

Graduate Research Assistant                                                                                              Aug 2022 - Aug 2023

Healthcare Robotics Lab @ Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

• Advised by Prof Charlie Kemp. Research on AI and robotics for assistive robots in healthcare settings.
• Research on task-conditioned Transformer model for visual-force goal planner from text & online imagery.
• Develop a physiotherapy robotics platform (with Stretch) for Parkinson patients, funded by TRI and Emory.

Software Engineer                                                                                                            Jul 2020 - Aug 2022

Open Robotics (acquired by Alphabet’s Intrinsic) and Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF)

• Contribute towards core open-source robotics packages, libraries, and infrastructure tools (ROS ecosystem)
• Core contributor of Multi-agent Fleet Management - Robotics Middleware Framework (RMF - ROS2).
• Worked on various commercial robotics software projects (partial/fully open-source) and consulting work.
• Collaborated with ROS-Industrial, A-Star ARTC & other partners on various open-source robotics projects.

Computer Vision Software Engineer                                                        Jan 2020 - Jul 2020

TUM CREATE and Speed Cargo (Research institution of NTU Sg and TUM Germany), Singapore

• Worked on 3D perception system for aviation cargo handling, funded by National Research Foundation.
• Enhanced accuracy for multi-camera extrinsic calibration, resulting in greater quality of fused pointcloud
• Implemented production-ready system with Kubernetes and containers for edge-based perception systems.

Robotics Software Engineer                                                                Aug 2018 - Jan 2020

Hope Technik Pte Ltd, Singapore

• Involved in RMF Robotics R&D project for heterogeneous fleet interoperability in healthcare settings.
• Robotics Manipulation:: Led project in Multi-Robot Manipulator workcells in sim and real-deployment..
• Agnostic Robot Mapping:: Developed 3D SLAM tool to generate 2D occupancy map for multiple AGVs.

Robotics Perception Software Engineer Intern                                        May 2018 - Jul 2018

Transforma Robotics, NTU CleanTech, Singapore

• Worked on perception, specifically 3D point cloud data management for autonomous indoor painting robot.
• Developed interfaces and algorithms for PCL plane segmentation and (robot arm) waypoints generation.

Autonomous Vehicle Perception Software Engineer Intern                                Mar 2017 - Mar 2018

Nutonomy (Aptiv / Motional), Singapore

• Worked on Lidar 3D point cloud SVM ML classification, data management, and web-based annotation tool.
• Engaged in autonomous vehicle testing and lidar & camera vehicle sensor suite calibration.

Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Atlanta, USA                        Jan 2022 - Jul 2023

Master of Science in Computer Science, in College of Computing (COC)

• Specialization in Machine Learning (First Class Honors)
• Graduate Research assistantship in Healthcare Robotics Lab, advised by Prof. Charlie Kemp.

Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore                        Aug 2014 - Jul 2018

Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)

• Mechanical Engineering Major, specializing in Mechatronics (Distinction); Minor in Entrepreneurship.
• Final year project @ Robotics Research Center - Indoor localization with visual odometry for AGV

Co-authored Academic Publications (Google Scholar link):

• GR00T N1: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Humanoid Robots, Nvidia [2025]
• AutoEval: Autonomous Eval of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies in the Real World  [2025]
• SERL: A Software Suite for Sample-Efficient Robotic Reinforcement Learning (Berkeley) [Jan 2024]
• Octo: An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy (UC Berkeley, Stanford and CMU) [Dec 2023]

• Multimodal Robotics foundation model for heterogeneous robots, observations & actions, with RTX.

• ForceSight: Multi-Task Text-Guided Mobile Manipulation with Visual-Force Goals (GT)         [Sep 2023]

• Text-task conditioned sparse imitation learning with visual-force goals from input RGBD obs.
• Conference for Robot Learning (CoRL 2023): Demo Acceptance. ICRA 2024 acceptance.

• Stretch with Stretch: Physical Therapy Exercise Games Led by a Mobile Manipulator (GT) [Sep 2023]

• Adaptive and personalized exercise platform. Colab with TRI and Emory. ICRA 2024 acceptance.

ETH Robotics Summer School, RobotX ETH Zurich, Switzerland                                July 2023

• Selected as one of the 50 graduate students to participate in a funded week-long summer school by ETH.
• Developed search-and-rescue autonomous mobile robot software stack for off-terrain outdoor environment.

Minor in Entrepreneurship Programme (MIE) @ NTU, Singapore                        Nov 2015 - Jun 2016

• Equipped with competency in business, finance, presentation, and entrepreneurship.
• Established and operated a profitable campus bike-renting startup within the NTU campus community.