Shashwata Mandal

Shashwata Mandal

Position
  • PhD Student
Shashwata Mandal is a Ph.D. candidate at Iowa State University, working in the Department of Computer Science under the supervision of Dr. Sourabh Bhattacharya. His research focuses on robotics, computational geometry, and multi-agent systems, with a particular emphasis on pursuit-evasion problems and path planning for autonomous systems. Shashwata has been actively involved in developing algorithms for aerial robotics, including work on joint task allocation and trajectory optimization for UAV platforms in wide-area biometric and phenotypic data collection. He completed his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the West Bengal University of Technology in 2016 and earned an M.S. in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University in 2019. He joined Iowa State for his Ph.D. in 2019 and has been contributing to advanced research in robotics since then​.

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Area of Expertise

  • Robotics Planning Multi-agent Systems

Education

  • B. Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, West Bengal University of Technology
  • M.S., Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University

Publications

  1. Mandal, Shashwata & Bhattacharya, Sourabh. (2023). Relay Pursuit for Multirobot Target Tracking on Tile Graphs. 7691-7698. 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161532.
  2. S. Mandal, T. Gao and S. Bhattacharya, "Planning for Aerial Robot Teams for Wide-Area Biometric and Phenotypic Data Collection," 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, 2021, pp. 2586-2591, doi: 10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636549. keywords: {Uncertainty;Vehicle routing;Data collection;Robot sensing systems;Path planning;Sensors;Planning}
  3. S. Mandal, T. Gao and S. Bhattacharya, "Planning for Aerial Robot Teams for Wide-Area Biometric and Phenotypic Data Collection," 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, 2021, pp. 2586-2591, doi: 10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636549. keywords: {Uncertainty;Vehicle routing;Data collection;Robot sensing systems;Path planning;Sensors;Planning}
  4. Gao, Tianshuang & Mandal, Shashwata & Bhattacharya, Sourabh. (2020). Planning for Aerial Robot Teams for Wide-Area Biometric and Phenotypic Data Collection. 10.48550/arXiv.2011.01492.
  5. Saha, Himadri & Mandal, Shashwata & Mitra, Shinjan & Banerjee, Soham & Saha, Urmi. (2017). Comparative Performance Analysis between nRF24L01+ and XBEE ZB Module Based Wireless Ad-hoc Networks. International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security. 9. 36-44. 10.5815/ijcnis.2017.07.05.
  6. Dastider, Surjodoy Ghosh et al. “Feature Subset Selection for Clustering Using Binary Particle Swarm Optimization.” 2015 International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT) (2015): 159-164.