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Dr. Sandeep Manjanna

Assistant Professor, Plaksha University



Area of Expertise

Robotics and Applied Machine Learning


Research Interests

  • Robotics for Marine and Agriculture
  • Path Planning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Adaptive Sampling for Environmental Monitoring

Education

PhD in Computer Science, McGill University, Canada


Past Associations

Postdoctoral Researcher at GRASP Labs, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Bio

Dr. Sandeep Manjanna is a founding faculty at Plaksha University. His research is in applied machine learning and robotics. Before this, he was a James McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow at GRASP Labs in Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. His research interests include robotic active sampling, multi-robot coordination, robotic sensor networks, reinforcement learning, and machine learning.

Dr. Manjanna received his MSc and PhD from McGill University advised by Prof. Gregory Dudek. His doctoral research focuses on designing algorithms for autonomous vehicles to sample, understand, and map challenging environments. Dr Manjanna’s PhD thesis was awarded CIPPRS John Barron Dissertation Award in Robotics (2021) for its impact in the field of Robotics in Canada.