Arnab Sanyal
PhD student since 2023
Energy-efficient, robust ML inference for generative AI on edge devices (quantization, computer arithmetic, accelerators)
- Industry funded PhD
- Amazon Lab126
- Qualcomm
- AMD
- Cruise
The lab
People
Students and researchers working on learning, reasoning, and verification for fleets of robots and AI agents.
Principal investigator
Sandeep Chinchali
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin
Research interests: Swarm robotics, edge computing, wireless networking, and energy-efficient deep learning.
Current
Students
Harsh Goel
PhD student since 2023
Multi-agent systems, embodied AI and reinforcement learning
- Cockrell School of Engineering fellowship 2023
- NVIDIA intern 2024
- Google DeepMind intern 2025
Minkyu Choi
PhD student since 2023
Neuro-symbolic AI, deep reinforcement learning, and AI and human interaction
- Cockrell School of Engineering fellowship 2023
- Lockheed Martin
Mohammad Omama
PhD student since 2023
Efficient, adaptive representation learning for resource-constrained search, retrieval and visual localization
- Amazon AI PhD Fellowship 2025
- Amazon intern 2025
Oguzhan Baser
PhD student since 2022
Distributed optimization, network intelligence, verifiable/private ML, blockchain, security
- Qualcomm intern 2024–26
Ruihan (Philip) Zhao
PhD student since 2021
Computer vision, robotics and deep reinforcement learning (VLA models, sparse-reward learning)
- Samsung intern 2025
- Apple intern 2026
S. P. Sharan
PhD student since 2022
Neuro-symbolic video understanding, computer vision, reinforcement learning
- Uber intern 2026
Sai Shankar Narasimhan
PhD student since 2021
Generative models for time series, safe RL and formal verification
- Synthefy intern 2025
Girishkaushik Karthikeyan
MS student since 2026
Machine learning, long-video understanding, agentic retrieval pipelines
Hemanth Ram
MS student since 2025
Multimodal time-series forecasting, combining LLMs with time-series foundation models
Raghav Mallampalli
MS student since 2026
Time-series foundation models, transformer models, video understanding
Alumni
Where they went next
PhD
MS
Pulkit Paliwal
Now at Synthefy
Sahil Shah
Now at UIUC
Rithvika Iyer
Now at NVIDIA
Sundar Sripada V. S.
Now at University of Bonn
Sharachchandra Bhat
Now at Tesla
Undergraduate
Aditya Narayanan
Now at Synthefy
Ahmet Ege Tanriverdi
Now at USC
Kaan Kale
Now at Georgia Tech
Pranav Kasibhatla
Now at Columbia University
Masaad Khan
Now at Tesla
Orhan Unuvar
Now at UT Austin
Sree Duggirala
Now at Flowdesk
Aditya Rai
Now at Saronic Technologies
Benjamin Oommen
Now at Etched
Lab life
Beyond the lab bench
Conferences, field days, and group outings with the Swarm Lab.
