Vivek Shankar Varadharajan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIST Lab. He received his M.Sc. in Automation and Robotics from the Technical University of Dortmund and his bachelor's in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from Anna University, and completed his PhD in Computer Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. His research interests include machine learning, artificial intelligence, distributed robotics, and cyber-physical systems.
Current Work
Vivek's work centers on the software ecosystem for long-term autonomy in robot swarms — making swarms reliable, updatable, and deployable in the real world. His projects include ROSBuzz (bringing the Buzz swarm programming language to ROS), dynamically updatable swarm behaviors, distributed data sharing for swarms (SOUL), and multi-robot exploration planners for space applications.
Selected Awards
- BSFD student scholarship, Polytechnique Montréal
- Winner, Hackatown 2018 (40 teams)
- 2nd place, ImplementAI Hackathon 2017
Contact
Reach Vivek at vivek.varadharajan@polymtl.ca. Always open to new collaborations.