Hi, I am PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science TU Darmstadt in Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki's PEARL Lab; where I am working on understanding the different grounding methodologies used in the Foundational Model based robotics systems; and ways of improving their capabilities by leveraging structured representations.  

Previously, I was a Pre-Doctoral researcher at Google Research India working with Gaurav Aggarwal and Claudio Gentile on search and planning based methods for object-goal navigation.

I have completed my Bachelor's and Master's degree in Mathematics & Computing from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur where I have worked on Safe Reinforcement Learning and Autonomous vehicles.

Outside work I am an avid photographer and who loves going on hikes, trails and camping.  

A Contextual Bandit Approach for Learning to Plan in Environments with Probabilistic Goal Configurations
Sohan Rudra, Saksham Goel, Anirban Santara, Claudio Gentile, Laurent Perron,
Fei Xia, Vikas Sindhwani, Carolina Parada, Gaurav Aggarwal
NeurIPS Robot Learning Workshop 2022 | ICRA 2023
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MADRaS: Multi Agent Driving Simulator
Anirban Santara, Sohan Rudra, Sree Aditya Buridi, Meha Kaushik, Abhishek Naik,
Bharat Kaul, Balaraman Ravindran
JAIR 2021 (Journal)
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