Sameera Ponda - MIT ACL Members

Contact Information

Name: Sameera Ponda
Office: 41-105
Phone: 617-452-2399
Cell: 617-230-8285
Email: sponda[at]mit[dot]edu

Education

Ph.D. Candidate in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
S.M. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2008
S.B. in Aeronautics and Astronautics (minor in Economics), MIT, 2004

Research Interests

Multi-agent Task Assignment Algorithms
Human-Robot Teams
Information-Based Trajectory Design for UAVs

Selected Awards

James E. Cunningham Memorial Scholarship (Spring, 2003)
Northern Telecom / BNR Project Award – for best Undergraduate Digital Systems Laboratory Project (May, 2004)

Selected Publications

S. Ponda, R. Kolacinski, E. Frazzoli, ''Trajectory Optimization for Target Localization Using Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles'', AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference 2009, Chicago, IL

Other links

WGA³ - Women's Graduate Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics