Experience

Mentoring Experience

PhD Students (with Assoc. Prof. Justin Dauwels)
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

  • Ramesh Ramasamy Pandi, Aug 2016 - Oct 2020.
    Thesis Title: Real Time Adaptive Algorithms for Dial-A-Ride Problems.

Masters (MSc) Students (with Assoc. Prof. Justin Dauwels)
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

  • Nitish Selvaraj Muthuchamy, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019.
    Thesis Title: Dynamic Object Removal in Point Clouds for Efficient SLAM.

  • Li Sihao, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019.
    Thesis Title: Lane Marker Detection and Rain Removal for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation.

  • Narayanan Aakash Kumar, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019.
    Thesis Title: Travel time prediction using LSTM.

  • Pranesh Chaitra, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019.
    Thesis Title: Travel Time Prediction using Random Forest.

  • Kolumam Anantharamakrishnan Krishnamurthy, Fall 2016 - Spring 2017.
    Thesis Title: Solving Dial-A-Ride Problem Using Ant Colony Optimization.

  • Ho Song Guang, Fall 2016 - Spring 2017.
    Thesis Title: Improved Tabu Search Heuristic for Static Dial-A-Ride Problem.

Undergraduate (BE) Final Year Project (FYP) Students (with Assoc. Prof. Justin Dauwels)
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

  • Tan Xin Yi, Fall 2016 - Spring 2017.
    Thesis Title: Implementation of Vehicles Routing Algorithm in Sentosa.

  • Yong Yong Qian, Fall 2016 - Spring 2017.
    Thesis Title: Mobility On-demand Algorithms for Vehicle Routing in Sentosa.

  • Guan Zhiyi, Fall 2016 - Spring 2017.
    Thesis Title: Simulation of Transportation in a Resort Park.

  • Jacquelyn Pang, Fall 2016 - Spring 2017.
    Thesis Title: Implementation of Dijkstra's Shortest Path Algorithm for Vehicle Routing.

Undergraduate (BE) Final Year Project (FYP) Students (with Asst. Prof. Amal Chandran)
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

  • Laveneishyan B Mogan, Fall 2020 - Spring 2021.
    Thesis Title: Capturing a Cooperative Space Debris using a Robotic Arm based CubeSat System.

Internship Student (with Asst. Prof. Amal Chandran)
Satellite Research Centre (SaRC), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

  • Manas Biju, Student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, June - August 2019.
    Research Area: Drag Models to Deorbit Debris in Low Earth Orbits (LEO).

AtmosX Team, Singapore Space Challenge (SSC) - 2020, Merit Prize Winners  [SSC'20]
Satellite Research Centre (SaRC), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

  • Prithviraj Ray, Anurag Mukherjee, Venkataraman Natarajan Iyer, and Joe V. Akkara, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), September - December 2019.
    Research Area: Space Debris Removal Mission for Low Earth Orbits (LEO).

MoonShineX Team, Singapore Space Challenge (SSC) - 2021,
Satellite Research Centre (SaRC), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

  • Prithviraj Ray, Anurag Mukherjee, Venkataraman Natarajan Iyer, and Mohammed Adnan Azam, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), September - December 2020.
    Research Area: Designing a Moon Rover.

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS-NTU)

  • Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, September 2020 - February 2021.
    Research Area: Mission Design for Space Debris Removal.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant
Systems and Control Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

  • Automation and Feedback Control (SC-620) - Fall 2014.

Synergistic Activities

Deputy Scientific Organizer (DSO)

  • Space Science with Small Satellites, 5th COSPAR Symposium, Singapore, April 2023.

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member

  • IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON), 2018.

  • International Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms (ICACCP), 2019.

  • International Conference on Advances in Computating, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), 2019.

  • Third International Conference on Computing and Network Communications (CoCoNet), 2019.

  • Eighth International Conference on Smart Computing and Communications (ICSCC), 2020.

Technical Reviewer
Journals:

  • Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (JINT), Springer, since December 2015.

  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB), since December 2016.

  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), since December 2018.

  • International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems (IJCAS), Springer, since March 2018.

  • International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS), SAGE, since April 2018.

  • The Computer Journal, Oxford Academic, since June 2018.

  • Robotica, Cambridge University Press (Core), since November 2018.

  • Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, since February 2020.

  • Advances in Space Research, Elsevier, since August 2024.

  • IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space, IEEE, since December 2024.

  • Aerospace, MDPI, since November 2024.

  • Remote Sensing, MDPI, since February 2025.

  • Technologies, MDPI, since March 2025.

  • Electronics, MDPI, since April 2025.

  • Applied Sciences, MDPI, since April 2025.

  • IEEE Access, since May 2025.

  • IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, since July 2025.

  • Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, since July 2025.

  • Robotics, MDPI, since September 2025.

Conferences:

  • IFAC International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS), 2016.

  • IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2018.

  • International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), 2019.

  • IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2019.

  • IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2019.

  • IEEE Indian Control Conference (ICC), 2019.

  • IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON), 2020.

  • IFAC International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS), 2020.

  • IEEE Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES) Conference, 2020.

  • International Conference on Innovation and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing and Technologies (3ICT), 2020.

  • International Conference on Decision Aid Sciences and Application (DASA), 2020.

  • International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), 2021.

  • IEEE Indian Control Conference (ICC), 2023.

  • IEEE Indian Control Conference (ICC), 2024.

  • International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), 2024.

  • IEEE Indian Control Conference (ICC), 2025.

Professional Memberships

Member

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)

  • IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS)

  • IEEE Multi-Robot Systems (MRS)

Industrial Experience

Research Intern
ABB Indian Corporate Research Center (ABB-INCRC), Bangalore, India, January - June 2010.

  • Software Reliability Modeling for Robot Studio - ABB Robotics.

Others

System Administrator
Systems and Control Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India
January 2012 - February 2014

  • Administrator for the department web and mail servers and designed the department webpage.

Department Technical Coordinator
Systems and Control Engineering, TechConnect, Techfest 2013, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India
January 2013

  • Coordinator for the quad-rotor flight demonstration.

Workshop Coordinator
QIP short term course on Motion Planning and Coordination of Autonomous Robots, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India
7-11 May 2012

  • Coordinator and organizer for the workshop.

School Representative (SR)
Department of Physics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India
June 2007 - April 2008

  • School student representative for the department of physics.

Head Student Coordinator
NAAC Student Activity Team, Govt. Degree College (Men), Andhra University, Srikakulam, India.
Febaruary 2005

  • Coordinator for college technical duties during the NAAC institutional review.