Curriculum Vitae

General Information

Full Name Sriram Siva
Contact sivasriram [at] mines [dot] edu
Website sivasriram.com
Linkedin linkedin.com/in/sivasriram
GitLab gitlab.com/sivasriram2112
Address Brown Hall 280I, 1610 Illinois St, Golden, CO 80401

Research Statement

I envision autonomous robots that adapt at a near-human level with short-term and long-term variations while operating in uncertain and potentially adverse unstructured environments. Accordingly, my goal is to develop intelligent robots capable of adapting on-the-fly through research on robot reflection, robot adaptation, or learning representations. Specifically utilizing insights from the cognitive reflection of human adaptation and developing robot adaptation methods based on principles from robotics, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence with applications in autonomous driving, robot navigation, human-robot teaming, and SLAM.

Education

Research Experience

  • 2017 - Present
    Research Assistant, Human-Centered Robotics Lab
    • Developed novel methods for self-reflection, enabling robots to be aware of themselves and reason about their interaction with the environment without requiring human supervision and, more importantly, reflect on their behaviors to improve their performance over time.

    • Proposed novel methods for adaptation, allowing robots to adjust behaviors on-the-fly in unstructured environments, using mathematical tools from structural regularized convex optimization.

    • Developed novel methods to develop, recognize and analyze representations useful for autonomy in long-term settings contributing to the effectiveness of SLAM and autonomous driving.

  • 2013-2016
    Research Assistant, Amrita Robotics Lab
    • Proposed advanced control methods of under-actuated robotic systems to improve fault tolerance.

    • Developed methods for multi-robot path planning to enable quick and efficient search operations.

  • May - Aug, 2015
    Research Intern, Ford Motors
    • Advanced motion planning methods for windshield PU applying KUKA and ABB robotic manipulators in an assembly line to reduce accidents.

    • The proposed method reduces PU wastages (≈ 6%) and significantly reduces windshield breaking.

Honors and Awards

  • Best Paper Award on Cognitive Robotics, Finalist, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.

  • Best Poster Presentation, Runner-up, at CSM C-MAPP, 2020.

  • Best Fixed Wing UAV Design and Flying, Winner, Airstrike-2015, Indian Institute of Space and Technology.

  • Academic Excellence Scholarship at Amrita Univesity, 2014.