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Building Reliable Robotics for the Real World

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Puja skiing on a snowy mountain

I am a System Software Engineer at Laza Medical, where I build robotic and AI systems for healthcare. My work centers on medical robotics, with a focus on automating echocardiography imaging and improving the reliability of real-world clinical workflows.

I'm particularly interested in problems at the intersection of robotics and uncertainty, where systems must perform reliably despite imperfect data and environments.

When I'm not working on robotics, I'm usually outdoors or sketching on my iPad.

> current_work.sh

System Software Engineer

Laza Medical
October 2024 - Present
Campbell, California
  • -C++/Python control software for AI-powered echo probe automation
  • -Sensor fusion (ultrasound + robot feedback) for anatomical tracking
  • -Hardware-software integration + system validation
  • -Contributing to deployment of a clinical robotic platform

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Learning Verifiable Control Policies Using Relaxed Verification

Puja Chaudhury, Alexander Estornell, Michael Everett
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2025

To provide safety guarantees for learning-based control systems, recent work has developed formal verification methods to apply after training ends. However, if the trained policy does not meet the specifications, or there is conservatism in the verification algorithm, establishing these guarantees may not be possible. Instead, this work proposes to perform verification throughout training to ultimately aim for policies whose properties can be evaluated throughout runtime with lightweight, relaxed verification algorithms.

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