Faculty/PI (Lab Director)
Prof. Ramviyas N. Parasuraman
Associate Professor, School of Computing
Director of Graduate Studies, Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Tohid Tasooji
Postdoc, HeRoLab
Research Area: Multi-Robot Localization and Decision-Making
PhD Students
Ph. D. Student (CS)
Research Topics: Multi-Robot Localization
Ph.D. Student (CS)
(Co-advised by Prof. Ramana Pidaparti, College of Engineering)
Research Area: Agricultural Robotics, Simulations, Optimization
Ph.D. Student (CS)
(Co-advised by Prof. Prashant Doshi, School of Computing)
Research Area: Human-Robot Interaction
Amit Kumar Rai
Ph.D. Student (CS)
Research Area: Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Agricultural Robotics
MS Students
Undergraduate Students
Rishab Seshadri
Undergraduate Research Assistant (CS)
Topics: Swarm Robotics
Alumni of HeRoLab
Ph.D. Students (Alumni)
Ph.D. (CS) – Summer 2023
Thesis: Collaborative Algorithms for Localization and Exploration in Multi-Robot Systems
Nazish Tahir
Ph.D. (CS) – Summer 2024
Thesis: Towards Collaborative Control and Computing in Multi-Robot Systems
Current Job: Faculty at UGA
Ph.D. (CS) – Summer 2025
Current Job: Faculty at Penn State Behrand, PA
PhD – Engineering w/ DICE Lab – Fall 2022
Thesis: Exploiting Emergence, Heterogeneity, and Knowledge Transfer in Multi-Agent Systems
Current Job: Research Scientist, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
, NY
Ph.D. (CS) – Spring 2022
Thesis: Self-Adaptive Swarm Systems
Current Job: Assistant Professor, Bradley University
MS Students (Alumni)
Shailendra Sekhar Reddy Bathula
M.S. Thesis (AI) – Summer 2024
Thesis: Synthetic Instincts: Echoing Reinforcement Learning Agents for Behavior Tree Generation
Current Job: PhD student at IIIT-Hyderabad, India
M.S. Thesis (AI) – Spring 2023
Thesis: Semantic Material Labeling of 3D Point Clouds Using RGB-D Data and Visual SLAM
Current Job: AI/ML Engineer, L&T Technology Services
Caleb Adams – Spring 2020
M.S. Thesis (CS) – Spring 2020
Thesis: High Performance Computation with Small Satellites and Small Satellite Swarms for 3D Reconstruction
Current job: Project Manager at NASA
Naveen Kurra
M.S. Thesis (CS) – Fall 2024
Thesis: Sensing and Evaluation of Bird Comfort Using Internet of Things and Machine Learning
Current Job: Software Developer II at Oracle
M.S. Project (CS) – Spring 2020
Research Topics: Multi-Robot Mapping, Deformable Objects
Current Job: ML Engineer at Honeywell Robotics Team
B.S + M.S. Project (CS DoubleDawgs) – Fall 2020
Research Topics: Gaussian Probabilistic Multi-Robot Localization
Current Job: Data Scientist at US Express Inc.
Undergraduate Students (Alumni)
Undergraduate Research Assistant (CS)
Topics: Swarm and Modular Robotics
Currently: MS Student at UT San Antonio
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Computer Science)
Topics: Robotics Competition Portal
Currently: Graduate Student at UGA
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Computer Science)
Topics: Mobile Robot Development
Undergraduate RA (Computer Systems Engineering)
Graduated Spring 2023
Research Topics: Swarm Robotics
Current Job: SW Engineer, Blue Canyon Technologies
Undergraduate RA (Computer Systems Engineering)
Graduated Spring 2023
Research Topics: Swarm Robotics
Current Job: SW Engineer, NASA Ames Research Center
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Computer Systems Engineering)
Topics: Swarm Robotics Testbed Development
Current Job: Software Engineer at L3Harris Tech
BS (CS) – Fall 2023
Topics: Swarm Robotics Testbed Development
BS (CS) – Summer 2024
Topics: Autonomous Robotic Vehicles
Undergraduate RA (Computer Science)
Graduated Spring 2023
The Scarborough Family Scholar
Graduated Spring 2022
Research Topics: Markov Decision Process for Self-Driving Algorithms
Undergraduate RA (CS)
Graduated 2021
Research Topics: Learning Technology – From Toys to Robots
First Job: SW Engineer at NCR Corp.
Undergraduate RA (CS)
Graduaetd Spring 2021
Research Topics: Multi-Robot Networks
First Job: Applications Analyst at Accenture
Undergraduate (CS)
CURO RA
Research Topics: Human-robot interfaces
Transferred to GaTech
Undergraduate (CS)
CURO RA (Summer 2019 – Spring 2021)
Research Topics: Acoustic Signal Processing, Material identification
First Job: AI Software Engineer at Knexus Research Corp.
Undergraduate (Electrical Engineering)
CURO RA (Fall 2020-Spring 2021)
Research Topics: Robotic RC Cars
CURO Honors Scholar
Research Topics: Swarm Robots, Autonomous Cars
Undergraduate (CS)
Undergraduate RA (Spring 2020)
Transferred to GaTech
Undergraduate (Computer Systems Engineering)
Undergraduate RA (Spring 2020)
Transferred to GaTech
Undergraduate (CS)
L-SAMP Undergraduate RA (Spring, Summer 2019)
First Job: SW Engineer at Nike
Undergraduate (CS)
Undergraduate RA (Fall 2019)
First Job: SW Engineer at AT&T
Undergraduate (CS)
Undergraduate RA (Summer, Fall 2019)
Undergraduate (CS)
Undergraduate Project (Fall 2019)
First Job: SW Engineer at General Motors
Undergraduate (Computer Systems Engineering)
CURO Undergraduate Researcher (Spring, Fall 2019)
Transferred to GaTech
Undergraduate (CS)
CURO RA (Spring 2019)
Undergraduate (CS)
Undergraduate RA (Spring 2021)
Research Topics: Swarm Robotics
Undergraduate Researcher (Computer Science)
Topics: Swarm Robotics Testbed Development
YoungDawgs/High School Interns (Alumni)
High School Junior
YoungDawgs Intern (Summer 2020 – Summer 2021)
Research Topics: Design and update of HeRoSwarm robot platform V2.0
High School Junior
YoungDawgs Intern (Summer-Fall 2021)
High School Senior
YoungDawgs Intern (Spring 2021)
North Oconee High School
YoungDawgs Intern (Spring 2024)