Principal Investigator
Saurav Agarwal
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay
Office: S01-A
E-mail: saurav [dot] agarwal [at] iitb.ac.in
Before joining IIT Bombay, Saurav was a postdoctoral researcher at the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked with Prof. Vijay Kumar and Prof. Alejandro Ribeiro on decentralised robotic systems. His Ph.D. was in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, advised by Prof. Srinivas Akella. His thesis introduced a unified framework for generalised coverage of point, curve, and area features in environments, formalised as graph-based optimisation problems. Earlier, at IIT Madras, he worked with Prof. Sandipan Bandyopadhyay on the design and analysis of mechanisms and parallel robots using optimisation techniques, which remains an active interest. His undergraduate degree is in Mechanical Engineering.