Raj Madhavan

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. 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 125 papers in refereed journals, book chapters, conference proceedings, and technical reports. He is currently editing a book (with E. Tunstel and E. Messina and): “Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems” (Springer Publishers) and a special issue with the Autonomous Robots Journal: “Characterizing Mobile Robot Localization and Mapping’ (with C. Scrapper and A. Kleiner).

Dr. Madhavan serves as the Program Chair for the Performance Metrics and Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop series since 2006 and on the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's Conference Editorial Board and Industrial Activities Board, and the International Journal of Tomography & Statistics and the Open Construction and Building Technology Journal Editorial Boards. 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. 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,  and the Washington Academy of Sciences. He is a senior member of IEEE, and is the founding Chair of the IEEE Washington/Northern Virginia Section Robotics & Automation Society and Sensors Council Chapters. 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 received his Ph.D. in Field Robotics from the University of Sydney, Australia.