Ramviyas Parasuraman
Director Of Graduate Studies
Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolRamviyas Parasuraman is an associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Georgia with eight years of academic experience focused on robotics, multi-agent systems, human-robot interaction, swarm intelligence, and wireless networks. He leads the Heterogeneous Robotics Research Lab and directs networked collaborative robotics research that bridges theory and real-world multi-robot deployments, including search-and-rescue and radiation-survey applications from his earlier work at KTH and CERN. His trajectory spans industry software development at Oracle to postdoctoral research at Purdue and EU research fellowships, giving him a rare combination of practical systems experience and rigorous robotics scholarship. He holds a PhD (Cum Laude) in Robotics and Automation from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and did computer-vision work at EPFL, reflecting strong cross-disciplinary training. Known for translating complex distributed-robot coordination problems into deployable systems, he mentors graduate researchers while shaping graduate programs at UGA. Outside typical academic metrics, his background in enterprise HRMS development and VLSI optimization hints at a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to research and engineering.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's exchange student, Computer vision, Master's exchange student, Computer vision at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneB.E, Electronics and Instrumentation, B.E, Electronics and Instrumentation at Thiagarajar College of EngineeringDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Cum Laude at Universidad Politécnica de MadridIndian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)EPFL
Tamil, English, French, Saurashtra, Hindi
Github Skills (59)
algorithm10
swarm-intelligence10
robotics10
controller10
wireless10
multi-agent10
matlab10
latency10
throughput10
rssi10
delay10
autonomous-robots10
ping10
ros10
utilization10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
herolab-uga/DGORL
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
DGORL: Distributed Graph Optimization based Relative Localization of Multi-Robot Systems
Contributions:10 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
graphlocalizationdistributed-systemsgraph-optimizationgraph-theory
herolab-uga/indoor-rssi-mobile-robot
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
WiFi RSSI Dataset from Mobile Robots in Indoor Environments
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
mobilerssiwifilocalizationindoor-positioning
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