Karthik Dantu
Robot perception · Safe autonomy · Field robotics
Associate Professor / CSE / UB
Founding Director, CEAR
Co-Director, MS in Robotics
Director, DRONES Lab
Karthik Dantu is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo. He works on safe and efficient methods for perception, representation and planning for robot autonomy. His research is centered around two field deployments - culvert inspection and autonomous excavation. For his work, he has received the IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation award (2022), NSF Early Career Award (2019), several nominations to best paper awards and the UB CSE senior researcher of the year in 2021. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of ACM and AAAS. At UB, he is the Founding Director of the Center for Embodied Autonomy and Robotics, Co-Director of the MS program in Robotics and leads the Distributed RObotics and Networked Embedded Systems (DRONES Lab).
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