Vivek Shankar Varadharajan

Vivek Shankar Varadharajan is a Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. Varadharajan obtained his Ph.D. in robotics from Polytechnique Montréal in 2022, and he has a master’s degree in Automation and Robotics from the Technical University of Dortmund. He is a full-stack robotics developer with vast experience in equipping robotic platforms with SLAM algorithms, navigation/​traversability algorithms, and robotic behaviors. Varadharajan’s research interests include multi-robot systems, swarm robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and distributed robotics. He has won several prizes in technical competitions, hackathons, poster presentations, and demonstrations during his studies. He was a team member of CoStar that took part in the DARPA subterranean challenge along with members from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has supervised many interns and masters students in their research.