Publications

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Experience

Education

Personal / Miscellaneous

1. My review on Goa College of Engineering, Goa, India (my ugrad institute, written in 2005). web-link | cache

2. In the summer of 2009, I digitized Human Power Lab's (Andy Ruina's Cornell Lab) 18 year old (1991 - 2008) tape collection which amounted to 100 hours of video web-link

3. My race results on athlinks
        Personal Records:
             Runs
                  6.2mi (10kms) 46min 33sec at Pittsburgh, PA in 2012
                  13.1miles (21.1 kms), half marathon: 1h 37m 42s at Nashville, TN in 2021
                   26.2miles (42.2 kms), marathon: 3h 34m 28 s at Corning, NY in 2010
              Triathlon
                   1.2mi(1.9 km) swim - 56 mi(90 km) bike - 13.1mi(21.1km) run: 6 hr 54m 13sec at Syracuse, NY in 2013
              My experiments with training

4. In August 2019, I switched my tenure track job. A write up on my experience and a perspective. If you want my job application material (CV, research and teaching statement, cover letter, diversity statement), just shoot me an email.

5. In August 2025, I was promoted to an Associate Professor with indefinite tenure. Here is some advice on successfully navigating the tenure track in Engineering at a research-intensive University.

6. 20 Thoughts on Earning the PhD (~30 min YouTube video)

Teaching

Teaching at UIC
     Starting March 2020 (Covid19), I taught and recorded my courses. A practise I continued till Spring 2025 that led to numerous online material that I have made available for free. You can access it using links below or check out this standalone page https://tiny.cc/educate

I12. ME594: Control of Robotics Arms and Legs (3D robotics)
       - Taught in Spring 2025. Course notes/videos/code are here: https://tiny.cc/robotics25
I11. ME594: Legged Locomotion
       - Taught in Spring 2021 for the first time. Course notes/videos/code are here: https://tiny.cc/legged
I10. ME410: Automation and Robotic Applications (2D robotics)
       - Taught in Fall 2020. Course notes/videos/MATLAB files are here: https://tiny.cc/robotics
       - Taught in Fall 2023. Course notes/videos/Python files are here: https://tiny.cc/robotics23
       - Taught in Fall 2024 Course notes/videos/Python files are here: https://tiny.cc/robotics24
I9. ME411, ME511: Mechatronics
        - Taught in Spring 2023, Fall 2025.
        -Course notes/videos are here: https://tiny.cc/mechatronix
I8. ME510: Robotic Manipulators
        - Taught in Fall 2022.
        - Course notes/videos/python files are here: https://tiny.cc/roboticspy
        - MuJoCo in python https://tiny.cc/mujocopy
I7. ME328: Numerical Methods
       - Taught in Fall 2023, Fall 2024.
       - Course notes/videos/code are here: https://tiny.cc/numerics24
I6. ME370: Mechanical Engineering Design
       - Taught in Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025
       - Course notes/videos are here: https://tiny.cc/design2024
I5. ME250: Introduction to Engineering Design and Graphics: Introductory course on drafting, design, prototyping including automation using Arduino, sensors, and motors
       - Taught in Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.

Teaching at UTSA
I4. EGR2513 Dynamics: About kinematics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies
       - Taught in Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018
I3. ME3543 Dynamic Systems and Control: About single input, single output linear controls.
       - Taught Spring 2016.
       - Final project, designing a PID controller for Flappy Bird
I2. ME4543 Mechatronics: About Sensors, Microcontrollers, and Actuators
       - Taught in Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Fall 2018
       - Iron Man comes to class (Spring '15), click for video
       - Mechatronics Final Project Sumobot (Spring '15). Battling Rowdy Bots, click for video
       - Mechatronics Final Project Robo Professor
I1. ME4773/5493 Fundamentals of Robotics: About modeling, dynamics, and control of manipulators and mobile robots
       - Taught in Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2019
       - Webpage featuring projects in the class webpage
        - Introduction to ROS and URDF webpage
       - Christian Trevino's pendulum prototype for the DoSeum (Fall '14). (click for video) News (link) (cached)
       - LEGO Labs to accompany lectures (Fall '15) (click for video)
       - Animated Face, HW (Fall '16) YouTube link
       - Manipulator Curves, HW (Fall '16) YouTube link
       - Project: Single player pong on GitHub with instructions and code.
       - Project: LARPA Robotics Challenge (LARPA = LEGO, Automated, Reliable, Powered, Agents)