Heramb Modugula

Experience

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  Sevya Multimedia

  Aug 2019 - Oct 2019

  System Integration Intern

  - Integrated Turtlebot 2 based service robot with GreenSys home automation platform- Wrote ROS API-handlers exchanging text, images, and videos between robot and cloud backend- Demonstrated some use cases of this work at IEEE Ro-Man 2019 and won second prize in Socialis Impermiere Student Exhibition

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  Dyson

  Jun 2022 - Sept 2022

  Robotics Research Intern

  - Was the only undergrad intern selected by their future robots division- Benchmarked and wrote custom algorithms for whole-body motion planning in Python- Integrated these algorithms with the entire system as a demonstration (using pyBullet, Gazebo, and Rviz)- Optimized and fixed bugs in low-level C++ libraries based on MoveIt and modified associated Python bindings- Refactored the high-level task and motion planning (TAMP) libraries- Generated custom ik-fast plugins for various 6/7 DOF arms and gripper configurations Show less

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  Komodo Health

  Jun 2023 - Sept 2023

  Data Science Research Intern

  - Worked on projects at the intersection of cryptography and medical data under the supervision of the company’s CDO and faculty at Harvard Medical School- Created realistic, comprehensive synthetic datasets for the entire US population using public SSA and Census datasets for benchmarking purposes- Identified trends in confidential source data and associated encrypted data- Benchmarked the performance of various encryption methods on proprietary datasets

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  University of Cambridge

  Jun 2024 - now

  Graduate Student Researcher

  - Getting familiarized with the novel COntextual INference (COIN) model of sensorimotor learning in humans and applying it to robots in collaborative, social environments- Research undertaken at the Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory, Cambridge in collaboration with the Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Cambridge and the Sensorimotor Learning Group, Columbia University