Group Members

We are looking for new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team

Faculty

K. Madhava Krishna

Professor and Lab Head, started 2005

Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Postdoc at LAAS-CNRS, France
Google Scholars
Email - mkrishna (at) iiit.ac.in

Spandan Roy

Assistant Professor, started 2020

Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Postdoc at TU Delft
Personal Webpage
Email - spandan.roy (at) iiit.ac.in

Harikumar Kandath

Assistant Professor, started 2020

Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Research Fellow at NTU Singapore
Google Scholars
Email - harikumar.kandath (at) iiit.ac.in

Nagamanikandan Govindan

Assistant Professor, started 2020

Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Personal Webpage
Email - nagamanikandan.g (at) iiit.ac.in

PHD Students

Laksh Nanwani

laksh.nanwani (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2022
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Autonomous Wheelchair - Vision Language Navigation
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Pranjal Paul

pranjal.paul@research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2022
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishan
Areas: Autonomous Driving
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Suraj Bonagiri

bonagiri.v (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: Spandan Roy
Areas: Novel UAV Mechanisms-Control Systems
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Snehasis Banerjee

snehasis.banerjee (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2022
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Goal Oriented Visual Navigation-Cognitive Robotics
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MS Students

Aditya Mulgundkar

aditya.mulgundkar (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2020
Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
Areas: Soft, Aerial and Underactuated Robotics
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Agaram Rohith

rohith.agaram (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2021
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: 3D computer Vision
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Ananth Rachakonda

ananth.rachakonda (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2021
Supervisor: Spandan Roy
Areas: Underactuated Systems - Hybrid Systems - Dynamics Estimation and Modelling - Nonlinear Controls - Model based Planning - Trajectory Optimization - Safety Critical Controls - Reinforcement Learning - Bipedal Locomotion - Prehensile Manipulation - Nonprehensile Manipulation
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Anish Gupta

anishgupta31296 (at) gmail.com

Joined: 2020
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Motion Planning Under Uncertainity
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Avneesh Mishra

avneesh.mishra (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2021
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: SLAM-Robust feature detection and matching-SLAM Frontend-Mobile Robotics
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Ayyappa Swamy Thatavarthy

vvsst.ayyappa (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: SLAM-3D Reconstruction--Multi View Geometry-Trajectory Planning
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Bitla BhanuTeja

bitla.bhanu (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2022
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: SLAM - Swarm UAV Exploration - UAV Planning and Navigation
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Haasith Pasala

haasith.pasala (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2021
Supervisor: Nagamanikandan Govindan
Areas: Mechanism Design - Underactuated Systems - Optimal Control
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Jayaram Reddy

jayaram.reddy (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2022
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Skill learning and acquisition - Reinforcement Learning - Dynamic Scene representations
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Jhanvi Shingala

jhanvi.shingala (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2020
Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
Areas: Fault Tolerance in Quadrotors
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Kaustab Pal

kaustab21 (at) gmail.com

Joined: 2020
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Model Predictive Controls for Autonomous Vehicles
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M Aditya Sharma

aditya.sharm (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2021
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Motion Planning-Control
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Mohd Omama

mohd.omama (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2020
Supervisor: Madhava Krishna
Areas: ASLAM - Differentiablity - LiDAR - Perception
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Rishabh Dev

rishabh.yadav (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2021
Supervisor: Spandan Roy
Areas: Dynamics and Non Linear Control
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Sudarshan S Harithas

sudarshan.s (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2021
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Collaborative SLAM-Visual Inertial Navigation-Uncertainty aware Motion Planning
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Swati Dantu

swati.dantu (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2020
Supervisor: Spandan Roy
Areas: Non Linear Dynamics and Control-Time delay and adaptive control
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Saksham Gupta

saksham.g@research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2022
Supervisor: Spandan Roy
Areas: Dynamics and Non Linear Control
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Amitabh Sharma

amitabh.sharma@research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2022
Supervisor: Spandan Roy
Areas: Non-Linear Control applied to robotic systems
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Sanket Kalwar

sanket.k@research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2023
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Scene Understanding (Autonomous Driving) – Robotic Perception
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Priyansh Sinha

priyansh.sinha@research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2023
Supervisor: Nagamanikandan Govindan
Areas: Mobile Manipulation
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Akash Kumbar

akash.kumbar@research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2024
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: 3D Vision – Neural Scene Representations
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Dual Degree and Btech

Aakash Aanegola

aakash.aanegola (at) students.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Motion Forecasting - Object Detection - Self Driving Vehicles
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Abhayram A Nair

abhayram.a (at) students.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: Spandan Roy
Areas: Control systems-Anthropomorphic hand
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Abhigyan Gargav

abhigyan.gargav (at) students.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: Spandan Roy
Areas: Fault tolerant control of drones
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Ahana Datta

ahana.datta (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Object Navigation-Room Rearrangement
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Amarthya Sasi Kiran Dharmala

amarthya.sasi (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2017
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Object Goal Navigation-Room Rearrangement-Dynaminc Obstacle Avoidance for Autonomous Vehicles-Self Driving Car
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Aravind Narayanan

aravind.narayanan (at) students.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: Nagamanikandan Govindan
Areas: Service Robots-Mobile Manipulation-Path Planning
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Ashwin Mittal

ashwin.mittal (at) students.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Robotic Vision-Mobile Robotics
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Bhaskar Joshi

bhaskar.joshi (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
Areas: UAV-Reinforcement Learning-Navigation and Control
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Charchit Gupta

charchit.gupta (at) students.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: Spandan Roy
Areas: Reconfigurable Modular Robots-Robotic Manipulator-Multi agent robotics
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Dhruv Kapur

dhruv.kapur (at) students.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
Areas: UAV-Reinforcement Learning-Control and Navigation
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Dipanwita Guhathakurta

dipanwita.g (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2018
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Multiagent Navigation - Rearrangement Planning
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Gunjan Gupta

gunjan.gupta (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Grasping-Visual Servoing
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Gurkirat Singh

gurkirat.singh (at) students.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Visual Intertial Odometery-SLAM-Vins Mono-Multi Agent SLAM
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M. Nomaan Qureshi

mohammad.nomaan (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2018
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Visual Servoing, Reinforcement Learning
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Pavani Babburi

pavani.babburi (at) students.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Indoor Layout Estimation
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Pranjali Pathre

pranjali.pathre (at) research.iiit.ac.in

Joined: 2019
Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
Areas: Monocular Multilayer Layout Estimation-3D dataset Modelling and Generation-3D Reconstruction
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