Gaurav Sukhatme
Donald M. Alstadt Chair and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Education
- Master's Degree, University of Southern California
- Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Biography
Gaurav S. Sukhatme is Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC) and an Amazon Scholar. He is the Director of the USC School of Advanced Computing and the Executive Vice Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. He holds the Donald M. Aldstadt Chair in Advanced Computing at USC. He was the Chairman of the USC Computer Science department from 2012-17. He received his undergraduate education in computer science and engineering at IIT Bombay and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from USC. Sukhatme is the co-director of the USC Robotics Research Laboratory and the USC Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory director. His research interests are in networked robots, learning robots, and field robotics. He has published extensively in these and related areas. Sukhatme has served as PI on numerous NSF, DARPA, and NASA grants. He was a Co-PI on the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), an NSF Science and Technology Center. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, AAAI, and the IEEE, a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the Okawa Foundation research award, and an Amazon research award. He is one of the founders of the Robotics: Science and Systems conference. He was the program chair of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation and the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Autonomous Robots (Springer Nature) and has served in the past as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and on the editorial board of IEEE Pervasive Computing.Research Summary
Sukhatme is interested in developing algorithms, techniques, and tools to design and understand large-scale, distributed, networked robotic systems with an emphasis on environmental monitoring. He also works in learning and planning for robot grasping and manipulation.Awards
- 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
- 2024 USC USC Provost’s Mentoring Award
- 2020 IIT Bombay Distinguished Alumnus
- 2020 Orange County Engineering Council Outstanding Engineering Merit Award
- 2018 AAAI Fellow
- 2012 USC Mellon Mentoring Award
- 2010 IEEE Fellow
- 2008 USC Center for Excellence in Research Faculty Fellow
- 2006 Okawa Foundation Okawa Foundation Research Grant
- 2005 IEEE IEEE Senior Member
- 2005 AAAI Outstanding Senior Program Committee Member
- 2002 NSF CAREER Award
- 2001 USC VSoE/Northrup Grumann USC VSoE Junior Faculty Research Award
- 2000 NASA/JPL/Caltech Excellence in Research
- 2000 University of Dortmund Gambrinus Fellowship
Appointments
- Executive Vice Dean, Executive Vice Dean
- Director, School of Advanced Computing
- Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- RTH 405
- Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering
- 3710 McClintock Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90089
- USC Mail Code: 2905
- (213) 740-0218
- gaurav@usc.edu