Our Team

Faculty/PI (Lab Director)

Prof. Ramviyas Parasuraman
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Fellow, Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Ph.D. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
web: http://computing.uga.edu

Current Postdocs

Tohid Tasooji

Postdoc, HeRoLab

Research Area: Multi-Robot Localization and Decision-Making

Current Graduate (PhD) Students

Sai Krishna Ghanta

Ph.D. Student (AI)

Research Area: Multi-Robot Coordination and Decision Making

Swaraj Nistane

Ph.D. Student (CS)

Research Area: Multi-Robot Localization

Aiman Munir

Ph.D. Student (CS)

Research Area: Multi-Robot Control and Coordination

Pranav Pandey

Ph.D. Student (CS)

Research Area: Human-Robot Interaction

Current MS Students

Atharva Sagale

M. S. Student (CS)

Research Topics: Multi-Robot Localization

Current Undergraduate Students

Neil Patel

Undergraduate Research Assistant (Computer Systems Engineering)

Topics: Swarm Robotics Testbed Development

Samuel Lemus

Undergraduate Research Assistant (CS)

Topics: Swarm Robotics Testbed Development

Rocco Arching

Undergraduate Research Assistant (CS)

Topics: Swarm Robotics Testbed Development

Alumni of HeRoLab

Ph.D. Students (Alumni)

Ehsan Latif

Ph.D. (CS) – Summer 2023

Thesis: Collaborative Algorithms for Localization and Exploration in Multi-Robot Systems

Current Job: Postdoctoral Researcher, UGA

Nazish Tahir

Ph.D. (CS) – Summer 2024

Research Area: Human-Robot Interfaces, Search and Rescue Robotics

Current Job: Faculty at UGA

Qin Yang

Ph.D. (CS) – Spring 2022

Thesis: Self-Adaptive Swarm Systems

Current Job: Assistant Professor, Bradley University

Sanjay Sarma

PhD Student (Engineering/DICE Lab)
– Fall 2022

Thesis: Exploiting Emergence, Heterogeneity, and Knowledge Transfer in Multi-Agent Systems

Current Job: Postdoctoral Researcher, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY

MS Students (Alumni)

Siva Krishna Ravipati

M.S. (AI) – Spring 2023

Thesis: Semantic Material Labeling of 3D Point Clouds Using RGB-D Data and Visual SLAM

Current Job: Tech Lead, Wipro

Caleb Adams Spring 2020

M.S. Thesis Student (CS)
Graduated Spring 2020

Thesis: High Performance Computation with Small Satellites and Small Satellite Swarms for 3D Reconstruction

Current job: Project Manager at NASA

Dhaval Bhanderi

M.S. Project (CS) – Spring 2020

Research Topics: Multi-Robot Mapping, Deformable Objects

Current Job: ML Engineer at Honeywell Robotics Team

Ravi Parashar

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)

Michael Starks

Undergraduate RA (Computer Systems Engineering)
Graduated Spring 2023

Research Topics: Swarm Robotics

Current Job: SW Engineer, Blue Canyon Technologies

Caroline Lassiter

Undergraduate RA (Computer Systems Engineering)
Graduated Spring 2023

Research Topics: Swarm Robotics

Current Job: SW Engineer, NASA Ames Research Center

Diego Alejandro Santamaria-Sarcos

Undergraduate RA (Computer Science)
Graduated Spring 2023

The Scarborough Family Scholar

Research Topics: Robot Perception

Kartikey Sankhdhar

BS (CS) – Fall 2023

Topics: Swarm Robotics Testbed Development

Aneesh Karanam

BS (CS) – Summer 2024

Topics: Autonomous Robotic Vehicles

Nachiket Hinge

Undergraduate RA (Data Science)
Graduated Spring 2022

Research Topics: Markov Decision Process for Self-Driving Algorithms

Anderson Molter

Undergraduate RA (CS)
Graduated 2021

Research Topics: Learning Technology – From Toys to Robots

First Job: SW Engineer at NCR Corp.

Ervin Enriquez

Undergraduate RA (CS)
Graduaetd Spring 2021

Research Topics: Multi-Robot Networks

First Job: Applications Analyst at Accenture

Hakan Gunerli

Undergraduate (CS)

CURO RA

Research Topics: Human-robot interfaces

Transferred to GaTech

Luke Lashley

Undergraduate (CS)

CURO RA (Summer 2019 – Spring 2021)

Research Topics: Acoustic Signal Processing, Material identification

First Job: AI Software Engineer at Knexus Research Corp.

Mohammed Mohammed
Undergraduate (Electrical Engineering)

CURO RA (Fall 2020-Spring 2021)

Research Topics: Robotic RC Cars

Jacob Gil

Undergraduate (CS)

CURO Honors Scholar

Research Topics: Swarm Robots, Autonomous Cars

Sharanya Pillalamarri

Undergraduate (CS)

Undergraduate RA (Spring 2020)

Transferred to GaTech

Madhurya Gajula

Undergraduate (Computer Systems Engineering)

Undergraduate RA (Spring 2020)

Transferred to GaTech

Davielle Matos

Undergraduate (CS)

L-SAMP Undergraduate RA (Spring, Summer 2019)

First Job: SW Engineer at Nike

Linsey Briley

Undergraduate (CS)

Undergraduate RA (Fall 2019)

First Job: SW Engineer at AT&T

Ashurst Walker

Undergraduate (CS)

Undergraduate RA (Summer, Fall 2019)

Mahdi Ghafouri

Undergraduate (CS)

Undergraduate Project (Fall 2019)

First Job: SW Engineer at General Motors

Karthik Paladugula

Undergraduate (Computer Systems Engineering)

CURO Undergraduate Researcher (Spring, Fall 2019)

Transferred to GaTech

Parisha Reddy

Undergraduate (CS)

CURO RA (Spring 2019)

Anushka

Undergraduate (CS)

Undergraduate RA (Spring 2021)

Research Topics: Swarm Robotics

YoungDawgs/High School Interns (Alumni)

Aryan Gupta

High School Junior

YoungDawgs Intern (Summer 2020 – Summer 2021)

Research Topics: Design and update of HeRoSwarm robot platform V2.0

Nikaia He

High School Junior

YoungDawgs Intern (Summer-Fall 2021)

Daniel Han

High School Senior

YoungDawgs Intern (Spring 2021)

Akshat Biswal

North Oconee High School

YoungDawgs Intern (Spring 2024)