Biography

Ankit A. Ravankar (Member, IEEE, SICE, JSME) received a Master’s degree (2012) and a PhD (2015) in Human Mechanical Systems and Design Engineering from Hokkaido University in Japan. He was the MEXT scholarship recipient (2010-2015) from the government of Japan. He is presently working as a specially appointed Associate Professor at the Department of Robotics, Tohoku University, Japan. He was an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University (2015-2021), and a Lecturer at Tohoku University, Japan (2021-2022). His research interests include mobile robot navigation, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), system integration, multi-robot systems, service robots, motion and path planning, artificial intelligence and machine learning, semantic scene understanding, and decision-making for robot sensing under uncertainty.