Bijo Sebastian
I am an Assistant Professor of the Engineering Design Department and currently heading the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
My research interests include developing intelligent grasping and manipulation algorithms, developing autonomous navigation solutions for Mobile Robots and multi-agent systems. For more details on my prior research please refer to my personal blog.
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Education
| Degree | University | Department | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Virginia Tech | Mechanical Engineering | 2019 |
| M. Tech | AcSIR-CMERI | Mechatronics | 2015 |
| B. Tech | University of Kerala | Mechanical Engineering | 2013 |
Industrial Experience
- Product Owner:
- Behaviors, Planning and Controls Team, Torc Robotics
- [January, 2021 - November, 2021]
- Software engineer:
- Motion Planning Team, Torc Robotics
- [November, 2019 - January, 2021]
Research Experience
- Graduate Research Assistant:
- Robotics & Mechatronics Lab, Virginia Tech
- [January, 2016 - October, 2019]
- Project Fellow:
- Surface Robotics Lab, CSIR – CMERI
- [June, 2014 - November, 2015]
Honors and Awards
- IDEATION Contest:
- Certificate of Merit: TePP Outreach and Cluster Innovation Center, CSIR-CMERI, July 2014
- Student Mechanism Design Contest:
- First Prize: 1st International Conference on Machines and Mechanisms (iNaCoMM 2013), Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee; December 2013
- Col. P. Vaidyanathan Memorial Endowment and K. Thomas Kora Memorial Award:
- Best Outgoing Mechanical Engineering Student: College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, India; March 2013