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Hey, I'm Anoop Sonar. I'm a PhD student at MIT working on robotics, particularly the planning and control aspects.
I'm working on my S.M. thesis with Prof. Brian Williams in the MERS group which focuses on combining learning and search for high-level activity/task planning using large language models and ideas from optimal satisfiability (OPSAT).
In the recent past, I received my B.S.E. from Princeton University where I was fortunate to work on safety guarantees for learning-based control with Prof. Anirudha Majumdar and multi-agent motion planning with Prof. Jaime Fisac.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Sep 2022 – Present • 1 yr 6 mos
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Computer Science, Applied Math
Princeton University • Princeton, NJ
Sep 2017 – May 2021 • 3 yrs 8 mos
Industry Experience
Academic Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems (MERS) Group • Cambridge, MA
Sep 2022 – Present • 1 yr 6 mos
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Principles of Autonomy and Decision Making (16.410/16.413) • Cambridge, MA
Sep 2023 – Jan 2024 • 4 mos
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Computational Cognitive Science Lab • Princeton, NJ
Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 • 1 yr 0 mos
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Intelligent Robot Motion Lab • Princeton, NJ
Jun 2018 – Aug 2020 • 2 yrs 2 mos