SWARM LAB - Key Persons

Oguzhan Akcin

Job Titles:
  • Student in ECE
  • Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin
Oguzhan Akcin is a PhD student in ECE since 2021. He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul. Oguzhan is interested in multi-agent systems, game theory, and generative AI.

Oguzhan Baser

Job Titles:
  • Student in ECE
  • Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin
Oguzhan Baser is a PhD student in ECE since Fall 2022. He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul. His research interests are distributed optimization, network intelligence, blockchain, privacy, and security.

Pranav Kasibhatla

Job Titles:
  • Bachelor 's Student, Physics ( Computational Physics ), UT Austin
Pranav Kasibhatla is an undergraduate student pursuing Bachelor's of Science in Physics with a focus on Computational Physics. Pranav research areas include collaborative perception, and wireless networks and communication. He is currently working on projects based on AR/VR autonomous vehicle simulation and edge computing.

S. P. Sharan

Job Titles:
  • Student in ECE
  • Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin
S. P. Sharan is a PhD student in ECE since Fall 2022, co-advised by Dr. Sandeep Chinchali and Dr. Atlas Wang. He holds a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NIT Trichy, India. Sharan's broad interests include deep learning, computer vision, and robotics. He currently works on symbolic reasoning, reinforcement learning, transformers, and NeRFs. Outside of research, he describes himself as follows:

Sahil Shah

Job Titles:
  • Bachelor 's Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin
Sahil Shah is an undergraduate student pursuing Bachelor's of Science in ECE with a focus on Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems. Sahil is working on edge AI in the context of swarm robotics.

Sai Shankar Narasimhan

Job Titles:
  • Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin
Sai Shankar Narasimhan is a Graduate student in ECE since Fall 2021. He holds a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Anna University, India. Sai Shankar works on developing safe reinforcement learning methods and formal verification. He also works on representation learning for task-aware communication with information bottleneck.

Sandeep Chinchali

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
  • Assistant Professor and Fellow of the Jack Kilby / Texas Instruments Endowed Faculty Fellowship
  • Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin
Sandeep Chinchali is an assistant professor and Fellow of the Jack Kilby/Texas Instruments Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Computer Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin and a core member of the Texas Robotics Consortium. Sandeep completed his PhD in computer science at Stanford in 2020, where he was advised by Sachin Katti and Marco Pavone. Previously, he was the first principal data scientist at Uhana, a Stanford startup working on data-driven optimization of cellular networks, which was acquired by VMWare. Prior to Stanford, he graduated from Caltech, where he worked on robotics at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). He is a recipient of the Stanford Graduate Fellowship and National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowships. His research interests are in swarm robotics, edge computing, wireless networking, and energy-efficient deep learning. In particular, he is working on collaborative perception and learning between fleets of robots and the cloud.

Shubhankar (Somi) Agarwal

Job Titles:
  • Student in ECE
  • Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin
Shubhankar (Somi) Agarwal is a PhD student in ECE since Fall 2020. He holds a B.S. ECE from UIUC with a minor in Mathematics. Somi works on making robots robust to distribution shifts while operating in real-world and challenging scenarios. His work lies at the intersection of Distributionlly Robust Optimization and Game Theory.

Sundar Sripada V. S.

Job Titles:
  • Master
  • Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin
Sundar Sripada V. S. is a Master's student in ECE since Fall 2022. He holds a B.Eng in Electronics and Communication from Anna University, Chennai. Sundar is interested in understanding autonomous systems applications using machine/deep reinforcement learning, and in the interplay of computer vision and robotics. He is currently working on projects involving edge ML and navigation of autonomous robots. Outside of research, he likes to read mystery books, cook, and swim. He also loves watching competitve Valorant.