Welcome to Romala’s website
MS in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Building perception and decision-making systems that hold up outside the lab — computer vision, deep learning, and robotics, with a year of production software engineering behind them.
Before this, I spent a year as a Software Developer at Barclays, where I worked on backend development, CI/CD pipelines, containerised deployments on the Barclays Containerised Platform (BCP), and Kibana-based monitoring dashboards. I graduated in May 2025 with a B.Tech in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from NIT Rourkela, India. My interest lies in the intersection of computer vision, deep learning, and robotics, particularly focused on designing intelligent systems that can perceive and act in challenging, real-world environments.
During my undergraduate studies, I worked on problems involving image restoration in adverse conditions, autonomous navigation in dynamic environments, human-robot interaction applying techniques such as Vision Transformers, frequency-guided attention, deep reinforcement learning, etc.
Peer-reviewed work in image restoration, HRI, and computer vision.
ProjectsVision-language driving, assistive systems, autonomous ground robots.
CVEducation, research and industry experience, and technical skills.
GitHubCode for most of the projects listed across this site.
My Undergraduate thesis was on joint haze and sand-dust image restoration focussing on:
- A Unified Framework for Haze and Sandstorm Restoration
- Lightweight Architecture for Real-world Applications
- Robustness for High-level Computer Vision Tasks
- Domain-Aware Attention for Complex Weather Conditions
In addition to my research, I am a trained Hindustani vocalist and enjoy listening to music from a wide range of genres and cultures. I am also into badminton and swimming.