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Prasanth Sengadu Suresh

Seattle

Summary

Innovative researcher currently pursuing a postdoc at Amazon Robotics. Strong background in robotics and AI. Known for enhancing human-robot collaboration and optimizing robotic policies, committed to delivering impactful solutions that improve operational efficiency.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Amazon Robotics
Vulcan Stow
04.2025 - Current
  • Developing adaptive policies for robotic stowing of a large variety of warehouse items into fabric pods, potentially saving around $2 billion annually.

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Georgia
THINC Lab
01.2019 - 12.2024
  • Designed PrecisionSort, an AI-driven robotic sorting system that increased efficiency by 35% in industrial applications.
  • Developed PrecisionDetect, a computer vision-based egg quality assessment system with 98% classification accuracy.
  • Created inverse reinforcement learning framework for human-robot collaboration, reducing human workload by 30% while ensuring high task accuracy.
  • Integrated ROS2, PyTorch, and OpenCV to enhance robotic perception pipelines, improving inference speed by 20%.
  • Published over six peer-reviewed papers in leading AI and robotics journals, including IROS and AAMAS.

Robotics Research Intern

Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
Boston
08.2023 - 12.2023
  • Designed a mathematical model for open human-robot collaboration, leading to a patent-pending IRL algorithm that enhances human efficiency in shared workspaces.
  • Developed Open Decentralized Adversarial IRL (oDec-AIRL), which improved policy learning in human-robot teaming by 20% over baselines.
  • Published findings in IROS 2024 and CogMI 2024.

Robotics Intern

RIF Robotics
05.2022 - 05.2023
  • Developed vision-based robotics prototypes for hospital sterile processing, reducing instrument sorting errors by 40%.
  • Worked with a cross-disciplinary team in designing a real-time object detection model, achieving over 95% precision in identifying medical tools.
  • Validated robotic system compliance with FDA regulations, ensuring hospital deployment readiness.

Education

Ph.D. - Computer Science

University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
12.2024

M.S. - Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Computer Science

Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO, USA
05.2018

B.E. - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Rajalakshmi Engineering College
Chennai, India
07.2015

Skills

  • ROS/ROS2
  • PyBullet, Mujoco, ManiSkill
  • OpenCV, TorchVision
  • Python, C/C, Java
  • MATLAB, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn
  • Git, LaTeX, TensorBoard, WandB, Matplotlib
  • Machine learning
  • Robotics design
  • Technical writing
  • Analytical thinking
  • Mentoring experience
  • Teaching experience

Publications (Partial)

  • [C5] Sengadu Suresh, Prasanth, Siddarth Jain, Prashant Doshi and Diego Romeres. “Open Human-Robot Collaboration using Decentralized Inverse Reinforcement Learning.” In the 2024 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
  • [C4] Sengadu Suresh, Prasanth, Siddarth Jain, Prashant Doshi and Diego Romeres. “OHRCS: Open Human Robot Collaboration Systems – A Research Perspective.” In The International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence 2024.
  • [C3] Sengadu Suresh, Prasanth, Yikang Gui, and Prashant Doshi. “Dec-AIRL: Decentralized Adversarial IRL for Human-Robot Teaming.” Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

Affiliations

  • AAMAS 23: Principal volunteer at the 2023 Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems conference.
  • GSEF 23: Judged senior high-school candidates for a prestigious national level science fair.
  • Peer-review: Reviewed over 10 publications for leading conferences like ICRA, IROS, and UAI.

Accomplishments

  • Excellence in Research Award 2025: Nominated by the School of Computing, UGA for outstanding research in robotics and AI.

Timeline

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Amazon Robotics
04.2025 - Current

Robotics Research Intern

Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
08.2023 - 12.2023

Robotics Intern

RIF Robotics
05.2022 - 05.2023

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Georgia
01.2019 - 12.2024

Ph.D. - Computer Science

University of Georgia

M.S. - Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Computer Science

Colorado School of Mines

B.E. - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Rajalakshmi Engineering College

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