P Rajalakshmi Author

Dr. P Rajalakshmi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India, and the Project Director of Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigation (TIHAN), a Section 8 company established at IIT Hyderabad. She earned her Ph.D. from IIT Madras in 2008 and has published over 250 internationally reputed research articles. Her research interests include Autonomous Vehicles, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), drone-based sensing, IoT, AI, cyber-physical systems, sensor networks, and wireless networks. She has led 17 projects as PI and Co-PI, including TIHAN and DST's NM-ICPS initiatives. Dr. Rajalakshmi has been a member of various national and international committees, including the Expert Committee for Engineering Sciences. She has received several accolades, such as the CYIENT Chair Professor in Future Communications (2021–2024) and the Digital Trail Blazer Award (2016).

Abhilash S is a Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering (2017) and a master's degree in the same field (2020). His primary research interests lie in computer vision applications for autonomous vehicles.

Abhishek Thakur is a Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India, and a Prime Minister's Research Fellow. He completed his bachelor's degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from IIIT Manipur in 2019. He is a member of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) Committee on Young Professionals. His research focuses on LiDAR-based Mapping and Localization, LiDAR data processing, and sensor fusion for autonomous vehicles.