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Raj Madhavan is an R&D 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 Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory at 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.
Dr. Madhavan has published over 110 papers in refereed journals, book chapters, conference proceedings, technical reports and has edited the 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 and on the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's Conference Editorial Board, and 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, a member of the Washington Academy of Sciences, a Senior Member of IEEE, and is the founding chair of the Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter of the Robotics and Automation Society. He has served as an invited independent judge for robotics competitions, has given numerous invited presentations in research organizations in several countries and as an invited chair of sessions in various robotics, automation and control conferences.
Dr. Madhavan served as Treasurer of the Washington Section in 2008, and is the founding chair of the Washington and Northern Virginia chapter of the Robotics and Automation Society.
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