June 2026:
Our lab has 7 papers accepted to IROS 2026 Conference to be held in Pittsburg in Sep 2026. Congratulations to all the members and co-authors of the accepted papers.
Apr 2026:
Many of our undergraduate students have presented their work at the CURO Symposium at UGA. Our lab had one of the largest representation at this undergraduate research symposium! Congratulations, Rishab, Nikki, Bonnie, Eshwar, Tanish, Mahir, Yuval and Paarth.
Jan 2026:
Our lab has secured 5 paper acceptances to ICRA 2026 Conference to be held in Vienna in June 2026. Congratulations to all the members and co-authors of the accepted papers.
Dec 2025:
Congratulations to our lab's undergraduate students Rishab Seshadri and Tanish Reddy for receiving the CURO Research Assistantship Awards.
Nov 2025:
We had a great Thanksgiving Lunch at a nearby restaurant in Athens, GA. The lab has grown a lot in the past few years!
Oct 2025:
Congratulations to our lab PhD student, Sai Krishna Ghanta for having two papers accepted.
Paper1: SPACE: 3D Spatial Co-operation and Exploration Framework for Robust Mapping and Coverage with Multi-Robot Systems. Accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) journal.
Paper 2: Policies over Poses: Reinforcement Learning based Distributed Pose-Graph Optimization for Multi-Robot SLAM. Accepted to the IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot & Multi-Agent Systems (MRS) 2025 Conference to be held on Dec 4-5 in Singapore.
June 2025:
Congratulations to Pranav Pandey on getting his paper on the integration of perceived and physical safety accepted to the IEEE RO-MAN 2025 conference.
May 2025:
Our PhD student Mr. Pranav Kumar Pandey received the Best Poster Award in the Advanced Social Navigation workshop held at ICRA 2025. Congratulations, Pranav!
May 2025:
HeRoLab is well represented at the ICRA 2025 conference recently held in Atlanta in May 2025. We have contributed papers in the main conference track as well as several workshops associated with the conference. Go Dawgs!
May 2025:
Aiman Munir has successfully defended her PhD thesis today. It's a big milestone and achievement for our team. Please join us in congratulating her and wishing her the best in going higher places. Aiman has been an incredible part of our lab and we will miss her. Her PhD thesis enabled multi-robot coordination in GPS-denied settings and considered energy-aware approaches. Congratulations, Aiman.
May 2025:
Our lab students Aiman and Harshisth received the Student Research Award and Best Poster Award, respectively at the SoC Computing Research Day. Congratulations, Aiman and Harshisth.
May 2025:
Dr. Parasuraman received the Faculty Research Excellence Award from the School of Computing at the University of Georgia. It's a testimony to the lab member's hard work and research excellence.
April 2025:
Our lab's PhD student Mrs. Aiman Munir received the James L. Carmon Honorable Mention Award from the University of Georgia at the UGA Research Awards Banquet. Congratulations, Aiman!
Apr 2025:
Many of our undergraduate students have presented their work at the CURO Symposium at UGA. Congratulations, Sam, Nash, and Rishab.
Jan 2025:
One paper from our lab on multi-level control in multi-robot systems is accepted into the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) to be held in Atlanta, USA. Congratulations, Michael.
July 2024:
Two papers from our lab are accepted into the 2024 IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2024). Aug 2024. Congratulations, Aiman and Nazish.
July 2024:
Our lab alumni Dr. Ehsan Latif’s Ph.D. thesis was selected as the UGA's entry in the national competition for the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. July 2024. Congratulations, Ehsan.
July 2024:
Aiman Munir's paper on "Energy-Aware Coverage Planning for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot System" has been accepted to DARS 2024 Conference. Congratulations, Aiman! Thanks to the collaboration with Prof. Ayan Dutta at the University of North Florida.
July 2024:
Congratulations to Nazish Tahir for succesfully defending her Ph.D. thesis in Computer Science. A well deserving achievement and very proud of her accomplishments in research and contributions to our lab's portfolio!
We wish her the best in future endeavors. Dr. Nazish Tahir is currently in the job market for academic (AP) positions!
June 2024:
Exciting news! Our lab has 4 papers accepted to IEEE IROS 2024 Conference. Three papers are original submissions to IROS and one paper was presentation at IROS through RA-L journal transfer. These papers collectively contribute to the robotics and multi-robot systems research community through novel localization, exploration, and perception algorithms.
Congratulations to Ehsan Latif (Postdoc), Aiman Munir (Ph.D. student), and our alumni Siva Krishna Ravipati (MS) for their excellent work. Check out the publications page for more details.
June 2024:
Congratulations to Ehsan Latif for getting his paper on "PhysicsAssistant: An LLM-Powered Interactive Learning Robot for Physics Lab Investigations" accepted to IEEE RO-MAN 2024 conference. Thanks to collaboration with Prof. Xiaoming Zhai at the UGA College of Education.
May 2024:
Our lab alumni and collaborator Dr. Ehsan Latif was honored with the Pioneers of Natural Sciences Laboratory Robotics Award at the ICRA 2024 “Accelerating Discovery in Natural Science Laboratories with AI and Robotics” workshop. Congratulations, Ehsan!
Apr 2024:
Congratulations to Prof. Ramviyas Parasuraman for receiving the CURO Faculty Mentoring Award by the UGA's Honors College. Every year the university selects up to two faculty members for this prestigeous award to recognize outstanding support and mentoring of undergraduate students for research at the university.
Check out this news coverage by UGA Columns .
Apr 2024:
Congratulations to Aiman Munir for receiving the "Outstanding Graduate Student 2024" Award from the School of Computing at UGA.
Apr 2024:
Congratulations to Nazish Tahir and Neil Patel for being selected as the Top 100 Employees of the Year 2024 Award Luncheon by the UGA Career Center.
Jan 2024:
Our lab alumni Dr. Qin Yang's (now an Assistant Professor at Bradley University) papers have been accepted to the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2024 and the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (T-IST). Both of these works were performed at HeRoLab while he was a grad student. Congratulations, Qin.
Jan 2024:
Our collaborative work with Prof. Haijian Sun's group at UGA College of Engineering is accepted for IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2024. Congratulations to the lead author Lihao Zhang.
Jan 2024:
Ehsan's paper on "CQLite: Communication-Efficient Multi-Robot Exploration Using Coverage-biased Distributed Q-Learning" is accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) journal. Congratulations, Ehsan! Check out the arxiv version of the paper here .
Dec 2023:
Aiman's paper on the exploration-exploitation tradeoff in informative path planning was accepted and published by the Sensors journal: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/23/9600 Congratulations, Aiman Munir!
Oct 2023:
Two papers on multi-robot computational offloading and network scheduling got accepted to the IEEE Robotic Computing (IRC) conference as Full papers. Congratulations, Nazish!
July 2023:
Congratulations to Ehsan Latif for successfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis. Ehsan has pioneered the collaborative algorithms for advancing the multi-robot systems research, especially for localization and exploration tasks. Ehsan's papers has appeared in top robotics venues such as IROS and DARS, as well as in top journals like IEEE IOTJ.
July 2023:
Our paper on "Instantaneous Wireless Robotic Node Localization Using Collaborative Direction of Arrival" is accepted by the IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Congratulations, Ehsan. We have open sourced the relevant codes at Github .
June 2023:
Our paper on "SEAL: Simultaneous Exploration and Localization in Multi-Robot Systems" is accepted to the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023). Congratulations, Ehsan. Check out the preprint of the paper here . We also have open sourced the ROS package here .
June 2023:
Our paper on "KT-BT: A Framework for Knowledge Transfer Through Behavior Trees in Multi-Robot Systems" in collaboration with Prof. Ramana Pidaparti (UGA) is accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Congratulations, Sanjay. Check out the preprint of the paper here
May 2023:
Dr. Parasuraman is the chair of the organizing committee and conducted a full-day workshop on "Communication-Aware Multi-Robot Systems" at ICRA 2023. Check out the workshop website for more details
May 2023:
Our graduate student Ehsan Latif received a fellowship for a week-long research exchange program at the University of Liverpool. We will collaborate with Prof. Leszek Gazieniec's group on the research intersection between Network Theory and Swarm Robotics.
May 2023:
Two of our lab's graduate students received the "Outstanding Graduate Student" award from the School of Computing at UGA. Congratulations, Nazish and Ehsan!
Apr 2023:
Our paper on "Communication-Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Swarm Robotic Networks for Maze Exploration" in collaboration with Prof. WenZhan Song is accepted to the IEEE INFOCOM 2023 Workshop. Congratulations, Ehsan! Check out the preprint of the paper
Apr 2023:
Our undergraduate students demonstrated a few of their works at the UGA ECE Student Spring Expo 2023. Our lab scored 2075 Robobucks (Runner Up) Check out this event
Apr 2023:
Our undergraduate students presented their work at the UGA's CURO Undergraduate Symposium. Well done, Michael, Neil and Diego!
Mar 2023:
Our undergraduate student received one of the "UGA Best Student Employee of the Year" Award. Congratulations, Michael!
Jan 2023:
Our paper on "A Hierarchical Game-Theoretic Decision-Making for Cooperative Multiagent Systems Under the Presence of Adversarial Agents" got accepted to the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) Conference under the IRMAS track. Congratulations, Qin! Check out the published paper
Jan 2023:
Our paper on "Mobile Robot Control and Autonomy Through Collaborative Twin" got accepted to the IEEE PerCom's Pervasive Digital Twins workshop. Congratulations, Nazish! She will present this work in the IEEE PerCom conference to be held at Atlanta in March 2023. Check out the published paper
Jan 2023:
Our paper on "Mobile Robot Control and Autonomy Through Collaborative Twin" got accepted to the IEEE PerCom's Pervasive Digital Twins workshop. Congratulations, Nazish! She will present this work in the IEEE PerCom conference to be held at Atlanta in March 2023. Check out the published paper
Dec 2022:
Our paper on "Rapid prediction of network quality in mobile robots" got accepted to the Elsevier Ad hoc Networks journal. This is a collaborative work with Purdue University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology Check out the published paper
Dec 2022:
Our paper on a new "Analog Robot Twin" framework got accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. Congratulations, Nazish! Check out the Published Paper
Dec 2022:
We wish you happy holidays and a happy New Year 2023. Enjoy a video from our swarm robots. https://youtu.be/7ZhtGTEeMCI
Nov 2022: Our paper on multi-robot localization was nominated for the Best Student Paper Award at DARS 2022 conference. Congratulations, Ehsan.
Nov 2022: Congratulations to our graduate students Nazish Tahir, Pranav Pandey, Ehsan Latif, and our undergraduate student Michael Starks for winning the best poster awards at the SoC Research Day 2022 and the AI Research Day 2022 at UGA.
Sep 2022: Congratulations to our graduate student Ehsan Latif for receiving the James L. Carmon Honorable Mention award at the University of Georgia.