Afzal Ahmad
I am a first-year doctoral student at the Multi-Robot Systems lab in the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic. I have been working on multi-robot, cooperative task planning for long-horizon tasks (multiple days). My broader research interests lie in multi-robot decision-making, especially in decentralized mechanisms, and in cooperative and non-cooperative Game Theory. Previously, I have worked on decentralized control for swarms and cooperation under limited information. My work is supervised by Dr. Martin Saska.
Before starting my doctoral studies, I worked at Fly4Future as a research engineer, where I developed mission-planning algorithms for searching large geographic areas using multiple UAVs. I have previous research experience working under Dr. Martin Saska at Multi-Robot Systems lab and Dr. Giovanni Beltrame at MIST lab, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada.
I have reviewed articles for RA-L, IROS, ICRA, and Bioinspiration & Biomimetics journal.
News
| Jul 01, 2025 | Started doctoral studies at the Multi-Robot Systems lab. |
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| Jul 01, 2024 | Attended the Robotics: Science and Systems conference as a Diversity Scholar. |
| Dec 01, 2022 | Top 6 masters thesis in the Czech Republic for the 2022 Cena Wernera von Siemense award in Industry 4.0. |
| Oct 10, 2022 | Journal article on PACNav: Collective Navigation of UAV Swarms is accepted in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics journal. |
| Sep 01, 2022 | Joined Fly4Future as a Research Engineer. |
| Aug 02, 2022 | Co-organised the The IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems. |
| Jul 30, 2022 | Graduated from Czech Technical University in Prague. |
| May 30, 2021 | Conference article on Aerial Swarming in GNSS-denied Environments accepted at ICRA 2021. |
| Sep 30, 2020 | Started masters studies at Czech Technical University in Prague. |
| Sep 01, 2020 | Presented first research paper at ICUAS 2020. |
| Nov 01, 2019 | Research on UAV Swarm in Forests featured in IEEE Spectrum Video Friday. |
| Aug 01, 2019 | Started Research Assistantship at the Multi-Robot Systems lab, Prague, Czech Republic. |
| Jul 01, 2019 | Graduated from IIT Guwahati. |
| May 01, 2018 | Awarded the Shastri Research Student Fellowship for undergraduate research at Polytechnique Montreal, Canada. |
| Apr 01, 2018 | Awarded as the Best Managing Secretary among student bodies at IIT Guwahati. |
| Apr 10, 2016 | Won the Internet of Things Hackathon organised by Bolt IoT. |
| Aug 01, 2015 | Joined the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati as an undergraduate. |
