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

Professor and Lab Head, started 2005
- Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
- Postdoc at LAAS-CNRS, France
- Google Scholars
- Email - mkrishna@iiit.ac.in

Assistant Professor, started 2020
- Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
- Postdoc at TU Delft
- Personal Webpage
- Email - spandan.roy@iiit.ac.in

Assistant Professor, started 2020
- Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Research Fellow at NTU Singapore
- Google Scholars
- Email - harikumar.kandath@iiit.ac.in

Assistant Professor, started 2020
- Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
- Personal Webpage
- Email - nagamanikandan.g@iiit.ac.in
PHD Students

Sarvesh Thakur
sarvesh.thakur@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2022
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Unsupervised learning for point clouds - SLAM
- Personal Page

Suraj Bonagiri
bonagiri.v@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: Spandan Roy
- Areas: Novel UAV Mechanisms-Control Systems
- Personal Page
MS Students

Aditya Agarwal
aditya.ag@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2021
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Rearrangement Planning-6D Pose Estimation-3D scene inpainting-Exploring synergies between pushing and grasping for goal-oriented manipulation in restricted scenes
- Personal Page

Aditya Mulgundkar
aditya.mulgundkar@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2020
- Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
- Areas: Soft, Aerial and Underactuated Robotics
- Personal Page

Agaram Rohith
rohith.agaram@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2021
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: 3D computer Vision
- Personal Page

Ananth Rachakonda
ananth.rachakonda@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
- Personal Page

Anish Gupta
anishgupta31296@gmail.com
- Joined: 2020
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Motion Planning Under Uncertainity
- Personal Page

Avneesh Mishra
avneesh.mishra@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2021
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: SLAM-Robust feature detection and matching-SLAM Frontend-Mobile Robotics
- Personal Page

Ayyappa Swamy Thatavarthy
vvsst.ayyappa@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: SLAM-3D Reconstruction--Multi View Geometry-Trajectory Planning
- Personal Page

Bipasha Sen
bipasha.sen@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2021
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Rearrangement planning-Exploring synergies between grasp and push for target oriented manipulation in scenes with restricted regions-6D pose estimation-Scene inpainting approaches for 3D scene completion
- Personal Page

Haasith Pasala
haasith.pasala@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2021
- Supervisor: Nagamanikandan Govindan
- Areas: Mechanical Design - Optimal Control
- Personal Page

Jhanvi Shingala
jhanvi.shingala@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2020
- Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
- Areas: Fault Tolerance in Quadrotors
- Personal Page

Kaustab Pal
kaustab21@gmail.com
- Joined: 2020
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Model Predictive Controls for Autonomous Vehicles
- Personal Page

Laksh Nanwani
laksh.nanwani@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2022
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Autonomous Wheelchair - Vision Language Navigation
- Personal Page

M Aditya Sharma
aditya.sharm@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2021
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Motion Planning-Control
- Personal Page

Mohd Omama
mohd.omama@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2020
- Supervisor: Madhava Krishna
- Areas: ASLAM - Differentiablity - LiDAR - Perception
- Personal Page

Rishabh Dev
rishabh.yadav@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2021
- Supervisor: Spandan Roy
- Areas: Dynamics and Non Linear Control
- Personal Page

Sudarshan S Harithas
sudarshan.s@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2021
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Collaborative SLAM-Visual Inertial Navigation-Uncertainty aware Motion Planning
- Personal Page

Swati Dantu
swati.dantu@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2020
- Supervisor: Spandan Roy
- Areas: Non Linear Dynamics and Control-Time delay and adaptive control
- Personal Page
Dual Degree and Btech

Aakash Aanegola
aakash.aanegola@students.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Motion Forecasting - Object Detection - Self Driving Vehicles
- Personal Page

Abhayram A Nair
abhayram.a@students.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: Spandan Roy
- Areas: Control systems-Anthropomorphic hand
- Personal Page

Abhigyan Gargav
abhigyan.gargav@students.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: Spandan Roy
- Areas: Fault tolerant control of drones
- Personal Page

Ahana Datta
ahana.datta@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Object Navigation-Room Rearrangement
- Personal Page

Amarthya Sasi Kiran Dharmala
amarthya.sasi@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
- Personal Page

Aravind Narayanan
aravind.narayanan@students.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: Nagamanikandan Govindan
- Areas: Service Robots-Mobile Manipulation-Path Planning
- Personal Page

Ashwin Mittal
ashwin.mittal@students.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Robotic Vision-Mobile Robotics
- Personal Page

Bhaskar Joshi
bhaskar.joshi@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
- Areas: UAV-Reinforcement Learning-Navigation and Control
- Personal Page

Charchit Gupta
charchit.gupta@students.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: Spandan Roy
- Areas: Reconfigurable Modular Robots-Robotic Manipulator-Multi agent robotics
- Personal Page

Dhruv Kapur
dhruv.kapur@students.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
- Areas: UAV-Reinforcement Learning-Control and Navigation
- Personal Page

Dipanwita Guhathakurta
dipanwita.g@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2018
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Multiagent Navigation - Rearrangement Planning
- Personal Page

Gunjan Gupta
gunjan.gupta@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Grasping-Visual Servoing
- Personal Page

Gurkirat Singh
gurkirat.singh@students.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Visual Intertial Odometery-SLAM-Vins Mono-Multi Agent SLAM
- Personal Page

M. Nomaan Qureshi
mohammad.nomaan@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2018
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Visual Servoing, Reinforcement Learning
- Personal Page

Pavani Babburi
pavani.babburi@students.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Indoor Layout Estimation
- Personal Page

Pranjali Pathre
pranjali.pathre@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Monocular Multilayer Layout Estimation-3D dataset Modelling and Generation-3D Reconstruction
- Personal Page

Pravin Mali
pravin.mali@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2016
- Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
- Areas: Fixed wing aircraft path planning
- Personal Page

Puppala Avinash Prabhu
avinash.prabhu@students.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2018
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: 3D Reconstruction-Computer Vision-Robotics
- Personal Page

Rishin Chakraborty
rishin.chakraborty@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: Nagamanikandan Govindan
- Areas: Mobile Manipulation
- Personal Page

Shaurya Dewan
shaurya.dewan@students.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Neural Radiance Fields-Canonicalization
- Personal Page

Shirish Chandra Srivastava
shirish.chandra@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2018
- Supervisor: Nagamanikandan Govindan
- Areas: Drone Pollination- Drone Mechanisms- Mechanism Design- Control
- Personal Page

Tushar Choudhary
tushar.choudhary@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Neural rendering, canonicalization
- Personal Page

Vedansh Mittal
vedansh.mittal@students.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: visual servoing-object grasping
- Personal Page

Vedant Mundheda
vedant.mundheda@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2018
- Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
- Areas: UAV-Model Predictive Controllers
- Personal Page

Vikrant Dewangan
vikrant.dewangan@research.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2018
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Trajectory Forecasting-Swarm Robotics
- Personal Page

Vishal Reddy Mandadi
vishal.mandadi@students.iiit.ac.in
- Joined: 2019
- Supervisor: K Madhava Krishna
- Areas: Rearrangement Planning-Reinforcement Learning-Robotic Vision
- Personal Page