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Swarnabha
Roy.

RL Engineer AI Researcher

Exploring how intelligent agents learn, make decisions, and work together in the real world.

Swarnabha Roy — From learning algorithms
to autonomous systems.

01 / ABOUT

Intelligence meets
the physical world.

I’ve joined HammerheadAI as an RL Engineer / AI Researcher. My interests sit at the intersection of reinforcement learning, robotics, and reliable autonomous systems.

My doctoral research at Texas A&M University, advised by Prof. Stavros Kalafatis in the PXAR Lab, focuses on modular multi-robot systems operating over challenging networks—from perception and planning to edge-cloud orchestration and learning-based control.

I earned my B.Tech (Honors) in Electronics & Electrical Communications Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. Along the way, I’ve worked on embedded robot controllers, precision agriculture, industrial digital twins, and software systems.

02 / RESEARCH DIRECTIONS

What I’m curious about.

Learning × Robotics × Systems

Learning to act

Reinforcement learning, multi-agent decision-making, and the journey from simulation to the real world.

RL / MARLSim-to-real

Robots, together

Resilient coordination, network-aware planning, and perception for teams of aerial and ground robots.

Multi-robot systemsPerception

Systems that scale

Connecting robots to edge and cloud resources for reliable deployment, efficient computation, and collaboration.

ROS 1 / 2Kubernetes

03 / SELECTED RESEARCH

Ideas into systems.

All research

2025

T-RoboCon: Optimizing a hardware-constrained Robot's Perception and Planning through Load Balancing using Containerization and Transfer Learning

2025 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)

2024

Efficient Resource Allocation for Multi-Robot Collaboration via Traffic-Aware Pod Autoscaling

2024 7th Conference on Cloud and Internet of Things (CIoT)

2024

A Realistic Industrial Car Factory Digital Twin Simulation for Virtual Reality Applications and Robotic Training

2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)

04 / THE JOURNEY

Research & experience.

More experience ↗

CURRENT

HammerheadAI

RL Engineer / AI Researcher

Reinforcement learning & AI

SUMMER 2025

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Research Intern · supervised by Dr. Jianlin Guo

UAV-assisted IoT networks

DOCTORAL RESEARCH

Texas A&M University

Electrical & Computer Engineering · PXAR Lab

Multi-robot autonomy

2018–2019

OYO

Software Development Engineer

Software systems

05 / THROUGH MY LENS

Chasing sunsets.

Photography & beyond ↗

A few sunsets, quiet skies, and moments of light I’ve captured along the way. Photographs by me, Swarnabha Roy. Select a photograph to see it full size.