Srinivas Akella
Department of Computer Science
Center for Automation Technologies and Systems
RPI.
Ph.D. 1996, Carnegie Mellon University.
B. Tech. 1989, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
I was earlier a
Beckman Fellow at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
CV
Research Interests
Robotics, automation, and flexible manufacturing;
Robotic manipulation and motion planning;
Digital microfluidics and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS);
Bioinformatics and protein folding;
Operations research and optimization;
Computer-aided design and computer graphics.
Teaching
- CSCI-2300: Data Structures and Algorithms Spring 2006 , Spring 2004 , Spring 2003 ,
Spring 2002, Spring 2001
- CSCI-4290/6290: Robot Motion Planning Fall
2005 , Fall
2003 , Fall 2001
- Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics: Fall 2006 (CSCI-4961) , Fall 2004 (CSCI-4967),
Fall 2002 (CSCI-4962) , Fall 2000
(CSCI-4965)
- Geometric Algorithms, Spring 2000
(CSCI-6962/4963)
- Lego Robotics Workshop for schoolchildren!: Summer 2003 , Summer 2002
Students
Here are the graduate and undergraduate students that I am currently
working with.
Here is some collected wisdom on research and writing .
I am looking for graduate and undergraduate students (URPs) interested in working
on robotics.
Here is a short note for
prospective students.
Srinivas Akella
Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, New York 12180, USA
Office: MRC 330B
Tel: (518) 276-8770
Lab: MRC 331, (518) 276-2135
Fax: (518) 276-2529
Email: sakella at cs.rpi.edu