I am a MSCSE student at Georgia Tech conducting machine learning and robotics research at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and the Robot Learning Lab. My research interests include Reinforcement Learning for Uncertain Spaces, Efficient Sampling, Dimensionality Reduction for Control, Perception and Planning in Highly Unstructured Environments. See resume for project summaries. To check out some of my photography. Get in touch at hemanth7394 [at] gmail [dot] com or on LinkedIn

Experience

• NASA Jet Propulsion Lab - 347F Robotics
  Remote Affiliate
  August 2019 - Present
  Pasadena
  

• Georgia Tech Research Institute
  Research Assistant
  February 2018 - Present
  Atlanta
  

• Robot Learning Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Research Assistant
  September 2018 - Present
  Greater Atlanta Area
  

• NASA Jet Propulsion Lab - 347F Robotics
  AI Research Intern
  May 2019 - August 2019
  Pasadena
  

• Crescer Engineering
  Founder
  December 2015 - August 2018
  

• FMRL, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Research Assistant, Fluid Mechanics Research Lab
  October 2016 - May 2018
  Greater Atlanta Area
  

• NIO
  Vehicle Safety Intern
  May 2017 - August 2017
  San Francisco Bay Area
  

• CFMS Group, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Research Assistant, Complex Fluid Modelling and Simulation Group
  October 2016 - May 2017
  Greater Atlanta Area
  

• McLaren Automotive Ltd
  Passive Safety and Analysis Engineer
  July 2014 - July 2015
  Woking, England

• ASAP Watercrafts
  Mechanical Engineer - Design Analysis & Optimization
  August 2014 - February 2015
  Nottingham, United Kingdom
  

• Mercedes-Benz
  Diagnostics Intern
  September 2012 - October 2012
  Hyderabad, India

• Butterfly Fields
  Intern
  May 2008 - May 2011
  

Cool Academic Projects

• Optimal Level-k Thinking Strategies for Pacman Players
  January 2018 - Present
  Hemanth Sarabu, Venkata Ramana Makkapati, Vinodhini Commandur
  

• Visual Cues and Planning Strategies during Indoor Navigation
  May 2018 - Septemper 2018
  Alex Clegg, Geoff Horowitz, Hemanth Sarabu, Jiwon Yeon
  

• Decomposition of Turbulent Flow Structures using EMD
  August 2017 - December 2018
  Hemanth Sarabu
  

• Project Ghost – Hyper Range Autonomous Glider
  July 2017 - Present
  Hemanth Sarabu, Niveta Iyer

• Segmentation of Fan-Bones in Images
  August 2017 - December 2017
  Hemanth Sarabu
  

• Sailing Race Path Planning
  August 2016 - December 2016
  Hemanth Sarabu
  

Education

• M.S., Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, In Progress (2019)
  Focus: Machine Learning
  GPA: 4.0/4.0
  

• M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018
  Focus: Controls, Modelling and Simulation
  GPA: 4.0/4.0

• B.Eng., Mechanical Engineering, University of Manchester, 2016
  First Class Hons. (4.0/4.0)
  Ranked 3, Class of 2016.

Publications

• Graph-Based Cooperative Robot Path Planning in Agricultural Environments
  H. Sarabu, K. J. Ahlin, and A.-P. Hu.
  IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2019
  

• Leveraging Deep Learning and RGB-D Cameras for Cooperative Apple-Picking Robot Arms
  H. Sarabu, K. J. Ahlin, and A.-P. Hu.
  ASABE Annual International Meeting, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2019
  

• Tackling Unstructured Orchard Environments using Surveying and Servoing as Canonical Tasks
  H. Sarabu, K. J. Ahlin, and A.-P. Hu.
  (In-Progress, Journal of Field Robotics)
  

• Modal Decomposition Analysis of Controlled Internal Flow Separation
  H. Sarabu, C. Peterson, B. Vukasinovic, and A. Glezer.
  71st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2018
  

Awards

NASA JPL Graduate Fellowship

Recipient of the NASA JPL Graduate Fellowship, awarded funding to pursue robotics research at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena in Summer 2019.

Jack Allen Award

Received the Jack Allen Award 2016 from the University of Manchester for achieving the highest mark in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering.

Presidential Recognition

Designed and built one-off economical Hydrogen-powered supplementary fuel system for four-stroke engines.
Presented to former President of India, DR. APJ Abdul Kalam after persistent research, emissions and dyno testing.

Presidential Award

Awarded the National Balashree Honour by H.E Pratibha Patil, the then President of India, for “Creative Scientific Innovation”.
11 selected out of the 200,000 nationwide participants in this category.