Gokul Puthumanaillam
I am Gokul, a PhD student in Aerospace Engineering and Coordinated Science Laboratory specializing in Controls and Dynamical Systems at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working under the supervision of Prof. Melkior Ornik in the LEADCAT research group. I recently finished my bachelors in Electronics and Communications Engineering with a minors in Computational Mathematics from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal. I am currently knee-deep into the world of probabilistic and algorithmic robotics, planning and estimation in adverse environments.
I enjoy reading books1, playing competetive chess and also (sometimes) video games2. I also play the Guitar and the Ukulele!
I was introduced to Linux at the age of 7 and never turned back: I love terminals! I have been using Vim for the past 10 years now, mostly because I spent the first 2 years figuring out how to exit it (ironically this website is built using Emacs)!
Hopefully, there will be time for everything.
Ongoing projects and research work
- Side Project: Vim plugin for ROS2 developers (expected release date: 04/03/2023)
- Research: ROS2 based exoplanet space exploration robot with time varying environment (expected completion date: 04/01/2023)
- Research: Adaptive differential predictive control for resilient reachability and decision making (expected completion date: 05/01/2023)
- Research: Reasoning in multi-sensor hybrid systems with applications in navigation and reachability (expected completion date: 05/01/2023)
Notes on the site itself.
- This site is nothing more than a collection of
org-modefiles, exported usingorg-publishinside of Emacs and hosted by Github Pages. - Since I sometimes make quite elementary mistakes, I’m sorry for my word crimes.
- I have a collection of mismatched socks that I refuse to throw away because I’m convinced the other sock will turn up eventually.
Footnotes:
Currently playing: Outer Wilds