About
Abhilash Somayajula
Associate Professor, Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Abhilash Somayajula is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ocean Engineering at IIT Madras and the Director of the Marine Autonomous Vehicles (MAV) Laboratory.
His research spans marine robotics and simulators, marine autonomy, artificial intelligence combined with hydrodynamics, and system identification from field and model test data.
Education
- PhD, Ocean Engineering — Texas A&M University, 2011–2017
- Dual Degree (B.Tech and M.Tech), Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture — IIT Kharagpur, 2006–2011, with a minor in Mechanical Engineering
Certifications
- MicroMasters in Robotics — University of Pennsylvania, 2019. Four courses covering kinematics, vision and machine learning, dynamics and control, and locomotion engineering.
- Machine Learning with Python — Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020