Biography

Dr. Yogesh Girdhar is an Assistant Scientist at the Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). He received his BS and MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he was awarded Paul A. McGloin prize for most outstanding academic achievement in Computer Science. He received his PhD from McGill University in 2014, with thesis title “Unsupervised Semantic Perception, Summarization, and Autonomous Exploration for Robots in Unstructured Environments”, which received the Honorable Mention for CIPPR Doctoral Dissertation Award. After his PhD, Yogi continued as a Devonshire Postdoctoral Scholar, and FQRTN Postdoctoral Fellow at WHOI. Yogesh’s ongoing research focuses on the algorithmic challenges that lie on the intersection of field robotics and machine learning, in the context of building smarter autonomous exploration robots.