Fellow of AAAS, AAAI, and IEEE; Recipient of NSF CAREER award, Okawa Foundation research award, and Amazon research award; Served as program chair for several international conferences; Currently the Editor-in-Chief of Autonomous Robots (Springer Nature).
Research Experience
Currently the Director of the USC School of Advanced Computing and Executive Vice Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering; Former Chair of the USC Computer Science department (2012-2017); Co-director of the USC Robotics Research Laboratory and Director of the Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory.
Education
Undergraduate: IIT Bombay, major in Computer Science and Engineering; M.S. and Ph.D.: University of Southern California (USC), major in Computer Science.
Background
Research Interests: Networked robots, learning robots, and field robotics. Professional fields: Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Miscellany
Contact Email: ude.csu@varuag; Administrative Assistant: Raymond Duran, Email: ude.csu@rnarud