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Raj Madhavan is a research staff member with the
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division of the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory and a guest researcher with the Intelligent Systems
Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He
received a Bachelor of Engineering degree (Electrical and Electronics)
from the College of Engineering, Anna University, India, a Master of
Engineering (Research) degree (Control and Robotics) from the Australian
National University, and a Ph.D. (Field Robotics) from the University of
Sydney, Australia.
Over the last decade, he has contributed to various topics in field
robotics, systems and control theory. His current research interests
include autonomous vehicle navigation in complex unstructured
environments, performance metrics for intelligent systems, and urban
search and rescue robotics. He has published over 100 papers in refereed
journals, book chapters, conference proceedings, technical reports and
has recently completed editing a book (with E. Messina and J. Albus):
"Intelligent Vehicle Systems: A 4D/RCS Approach".
Dr. Madhavan serves as the Program Chair for the Performance Metrics and
Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop (2006-), as an associate editor of
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's Conference Editorial Board, and
on the International Journal of Tomography & Statistics' Editorial
Board. He is an elected eminent Engineer of the Tau Beta Pi University
of Maryland Chapter, a full member of the scientific research society,
Sigma Xi, the Washington Academy of Sciences, a senior member of IEEE,
and is the founding Chair of the IEEE Washington Section Robotics &
Automation Society Chapter. He was the postgraduate winner of the 1998
IEEE Region 10 (Asia and the Pacific) student paper competition and the
graduate division winner of the 1998 Society for Mining, Metallurgy and
Exploration (SME) outstanding student paper contest. He has served on
various program and organizing committees of international conferences
and workshops and as an invited independent judge for robotics
competitions, has given numerous invited presentations in research
organizations in several countries and frequently serves as an invited
chair of sessions in various robotics, automation and control
conferences. His email address is raj.madhavan@ieee.org.
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