People

CEAR Leadership

  • Karthik Dantu.
    Karthik Dantu, PhD
    PhD, University of Southern California

    106 Davis Hall

    Phone: (716) 645-2670

    kdantu@buffalo.edu

    Associate Professor
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Topics: Mobile sensor networks; robot networks; networked embedded systems; mobile computing; wireless networks; embedded operating systems

  • Souma Chowdhury.
    Souma Chowdhury, PhD
    PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    246 Bell Hall

    Phone: (716) 645-3059

    soumacho@buffalo.edu

    Professor
    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    Adjunct Associate Professor
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    Co-Director
    Center for Embodied Autonomy and Robotics (CEAR)
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    Co-Director
    Engineering Science MS in Robotics
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Interests: Design Optimization, MINLP, Bio-inspired Computing, Physics-informed Machine Learning, Graph Reinforcement Learning, and Physical AI, with applications to Autonomous Aerospace Systems, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (aka Drones), Multi-Robot Systems, Robot Swarms, and Physical Networks

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