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Gaurav S. Sukhatme is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He holds the Donald M. Alstadt Chair in Advanced Computing and serves as the Executive Vice Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Sukhatme is the Director of the USC School of Advanced Computing and has been a co-director of the USC Robotics Research Laboratory. His research interests include networked robots, learning robots, and field robotics, and he has published extensively in these areas. Sukhatme has led numerous research projects funded by organizations such as NSF, DARPA, and NASA. He is a Fellow of AAAS, AAAI, and IEEE, and has received various prestigious awards including the NSF CAREER Award and the Okawa Foundation Research Award. He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief for Autonomous Robots and has held editorial positions for several other journals within the field of robotics.
University of Southern California • Los Angeles, CA
Teaching and conducting research in computer science and robotics.
School of Advanced Computing, USC • Los Angeles, CA
Overseeing academic and research programs in advanced computing.
Department of Computer Science, USC • Los Angeles, CA
Led the department, managing faculty and academic programs.
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