Biography
Sriharsha Bhat received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2013, and a master’s degree in Vehicle Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden in 2016. He is currently a PhD student at KTH focusing on the control and simulation of underwater robots. From 2013-2014, he was a Research Engineer at the Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore focusing on aerial and underwater robotics; and from 2016-2018, he was a Technology Development Engineer at Continental, Hannover, Germany. His research interests include optimal and model predictive control, motion planning, reinforcement learning, simulation/modeling, and system identification for robots and autonomous vehicles in challenging field applications.