Summary
Ramviyas 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.
8 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 Lausanne
B.E, Electronics and Instrumentation, B.E, Electronics and Instrumentation at Thiagarajar College of Engineering
Doctor 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 Madrid
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
EPFL
Tamil, English, French, Saurashtra, Hindi