The Chandra Robot Δutonomy Lab, or CRΔL, is led by Professor Rohan Chandra. CRΔL focuses on building robots that navigate among humans, like humans.

Dr. Chandra completed a postdoc at UT Austin from 2022 to 2024, advised by Dr. Joydeep Biswas and Dr. Peter Stone. Dr. Chandra obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in 2018 and 2022 from the GAMMA Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park advised by Dr. Dinesh Manocha. His doctoral thesis focused on autonomous driving in dense, heterogeneous, and unstructured traffic environments.

CRΔL    CRΔL    rohanchandra@virginia.edu
CRΔL is hiring 1-2 Ph.D. students.

Jun 2024  Dr. Chandra received the 2023 Drones Young Investigator Award!
Feb 2024  Dr. Chandra was appointed as Field Editor, "Encyclopedia of GIS", Springer, August 2026!
Feb 2024  Dr. Chandra was appointed as Guest Editor, MDPI Drones, Special Issue on Advances in Perception and Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Vehicles!
Jan 2024  Hybrid Social Navigation accepted to ICRA 2024!
Jan 2024  DO-ICBF paper accepted to ACC 2024 (oral)!
Dec 2023  Dr. Chandra was invited to speak at the Symposium on Indian Driving Simulation!
Dec 2023  SocialGym 2.0 accepted to AAAI (demo track) 2024!
Oct 2023  Dr. Chandra won the Best Paper/Presentation Award at the IROS 2023 Workshop on Advances in Multi-Agent Learning for iPlan !
Sep 2023  Dr. Chandra won the SNU PhD Talk Award!
Sep 2023  iPlan accepted as Oral at CoRL 2023!
Jun 2023  Dr. Chandra was appointed as the Publicity and Social Media Chair for the International Symposium on Multi-Robot & Multi-Agent Systems 2023!
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