Curriculum vitae

Swarnabha Roy · RL Engineer / AI Researcher at HammerheadAI

Resume document · LinkedIn · Google Scholar

Experience

  • HammerheadAI — RL Engineer / AI Researcher, current role.
  • Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories — Research Intern, summer 2025. UAV path planning for mobile IoT networks, supervised by Dr. Jianlin Guo.
  • Texas A&M University — Doctoral research in modular multi-robot systems, perception, planning, and edge-cloud orchestration. Teaching experience in the Capstone Senior Design Lab.
  • OYO — Software Development Engineer, July 2018–July 2019. Occupancy and Availability Team.

Education & research

  • Texas A&M University — Doctoral research in Electrical & Computer Engineering, advised by Prof. Stavros Kalafatis in the PXAR Lab.
  • IIT Kharagpur — B.Tech (Honors), Electronics & Electrical Communications Engineering. Research on switched-capacitor DC-DC converters and SoC controllers for miniature robots.

Research interests

Reinforcement learning and multi-agent decision-making; multi-robot autonomy; network-aware coordination; RGB-D and 3D perception; sim-to-real and digital twins; edge-cloud robotics.

Tools & systems

ROS 1/2, Docker, Kubernetes/K3s, robotic manipulators, and sensor fusion.

Publications

Browse my research or see the full publication list on Google Scholar.

Teaching & community

Teaching · Community involvement and mentoring