Varun Murali
Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolVarun Murali is an assistant professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University with 11 years of experience building autonomy for robots in real-world, unstructured environments. He develops computationally efficient hierarchical semantic mapping, planning, and tasking algorithms that tightly integrate perception-action loops to enable robots to handle complex, under-specified tasks. Before joining Texas A&M he was a postdoc at UPenn’s GRASP lab and earned a PhD from MIT’s Aeronautics and Astronautics program, blending strong theoretical foundations with hands-on experimental validation. His work emphasizes general-purpose autonomy that scales to dynamic settings, reflecting a pragmatic focus on deployable methods rather than purely theoretical solutions. Colleagues note his ability to translate multi-institutional research into cohesive systems-level advances in robot decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science, High School Science at Deeksha Center For LearningSri Kumarans Childrens SchoolBENG Hons Electronic and Communications Engineering with a year in Industry, BENG Hons Electronic and Communications Engineering with a year in Industry at University of KentDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (MS) CS (Specialization: Robotics and Perception), Master of Science (MS) CS (Specialization: Robotics and Perception) at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (29)
robotics9
simulation9
flight-simulation9
agile9
unity3d9
ros-driver8
decoder8
ros8
hardware8
encoder-decoder8
encoder8
motion-capture7
mocap7
pixel6
architecture6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
varunmurali1/safe_navigation
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
varunmurali1/varunmurali1.github.io
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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