Disclaimer: Although I currently work at NVIDIA, I wrote this article before I joined in July 2021. All opinions in this post are my own and not associated with my company. Over the past few month...

The visions I had for grad school have not quite been realized during my time at UPenn. The Statement of Purpose I used for my Masters’ admissions was filled with the experiences I had when workin...

The APStreamline project aims to make streaming live video from companion computers as painless as possible. It was first released as the product of my ArduPilot GSoC project back in 2018. Communit...

The repetitive months of quarantine have been exhausting in every single way. One of the sources of light in this unfamiliar tunnel of social isolation has been my new bicycle, on which I have alre...

Since my last post on COVID19, much has happened. Vaccine development is a topic which I have been following with great interest and it looks like the frontrunner vaccine candidates mentioned in my...

The first time I heard of the coronavirus was on Jan 23 2020. A Chinese postdoc at a UPenn robotics lab I was planning to join was telling me about how a mysterious virus had been rapidly spreading...

Before starting my master’s degree in robotics at UPenn, I had many unanswered questions about what a master’s degree would be like. I was certain that it would be considerably more difficult than ...

On the eve of the day I start my masters degree in Robotics, I am definitely in a better state of mind than I was when I started undergrad. I have to start by saying that the last year was blissfu...

This has been the first summer vacation in a while in which I’ve had absolutely nothing to do. It’s a far cry from the last three summers which had been filled with (at least in 2016 and 2018) inte...

I really like the DJI/Ryze Tello. It’s a great nano drone and its feature list is hard to match at its price point. The camera/video quality is very good and for a drone which solely relies on its...