About

I'm an M.Tech student in the Integrated Design & Innovation (iDD) program at IIT Madras. My thesis, advised by Prof. Pulkit Verma, argues that flat-foldable origami tessellations are natively Eulerian, so they give 3D-printer toolpaths their crossing-free, single-stroke structure for free, instead of forcing it with mesh refinement. Everything else on this site grew out of chasing that same idea into other places it applies: generative design and mechanism synthesis.

What ties the projects together

Origami is a strange kind of design space: almost every random crease pattern doesn't fold flat at all, and deciding whether a discrete mountain/valley assignment folds globally is NP-hard. That sounds like a liability. In practice it's the opposite: the small amount of structure that does survive (Maekawa's parity condition, Kawasaki's angle condition, rigid-fold closure) turns out to be exactly the leverage needed to solve problems that look unrelated on the surface:

• a graph-parity theorem gives a 3D-printer toolpath its crossing-free structure for free (the FDM thesis);
• a learned version of that same feasibility condition can steer a generative model onto a measure-zero manifold instead of off of it (origami-diffuse);
• a family of flat-fabricable linkages turns "one muscle, many motions" from a hand-tuning problem into an inverse-optimization problem (the biohybrid linkage project).

A clean piece of mathematics (a parity condition, a closure constraint, a symmetry) doing real engineering work: making something fabricable, learnable, or controllable that would otherwise be intractable by brute force.

Tools I reach for

Elsewhere

I write up longer, more informal versions of this research on the blog. Code for these projects lives on GitHub (repos are being made public on a rolling basis). The fastest way to reach me is email.