Liz Wai-Ping Ng
When an Uber car picking up passengers is a robot, passengers want assurance that the ride is going to be affordable, efficient, smooth — and safe.
That’s where researchers like Neeraj Gandhi, a doctoral candidate in Computer and Information Science (CIS) and scholar at the Penn Research in Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering (PRECISE) Center, come in.
Gandhi focuses on improving the safety and security of networks of computers that collaborate to control physical devices, such as self-driving cars. He also looks at these processes in multi-rotor aerial drones, which can be used for agriculture, mining, mapping, surveillance and intelligence, and system security for tasks performed by multiple robots.