Hey there! I’m Vasanth, a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, where I spend my time convincing robots to be a little smarter (and hopefully not take over the world). Advised by the brilliant Dr. Hoda Eldardiry and Dr. Almuatazbellah (Muataz) Boker. my research dives into Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) and control systems. In simpler terms—I teach robots to work together without stepping on each other’s toes (most of the time). I explore things like sparse communication, dynamic curriculum learning, and human-robot interaction, with applications in social navigation and large-scale autonomous systems. When I’m not debugging (or questioning my life choices when training models overnight), I write about cool research topics on my blog. Outside of research, you’ll probably find me playing Volleyball or Table Tennis, where I apply my multi-agent coordination skills in real life—sometimes successfully, sometimes embarrassingly.