Principal Investigator

Sandhya Saisubramanian
Sandhya Saisubramanian

Sandhya Saisubramanian is an Assistant Professor in EECS at Oregon State University. She leads the IRAS research group and is affiliated with OSU’s robotics institute CoRIS. She obtained her PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Saisubramanian is a recipient of Outstanding Paper Award at RLC 2025,  ICAPS 2022 Outstanding Program Committee Member Award and a Distinguished Paper Award at IJCAI 2020. Dr. Saisubramanian is also the Program Co-Chair of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) 2026. 

 

Website: https://www.sandhyasai.com/

Office: 3005 Kelley Engineering Center

Contact: sandhya.sai at oregonstate.edu

 

Current Graduate Students

Yashwanthi Anand
Yashwanthi Anand

Ph.D. in CS

Pulkit Rustagi
Pulkit Rustagi

Ph.D. in ROB

Jeffrey Jewett
Jeffrey Jewett

Ph.D. in AI

William Solow
William Solow

Ph.D. in AI

 

Undergraduate Students

  • Alina Hyk
  • Natalia Zaitseva

Alumni 

  • Malhar Milind Damle (Honor’s thesis: Safe Navigation in Highway Environment Using Behavioral Cloning; next step: CapitalOne)
  • Avi Desai (next step: MS in AI at UT Austin) 
  • Kunal Chopra
  • Mason Schuster