Drones 2023 Young Investigator Award—Winner Announced

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Drones 2023 Young Investigator Award—Dr. Rohan Chandra.

Dr. Rohan Chandra is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Texas Robotics, advised by Dr. Joydeep Biswas and Dr. Peter Stone, at the University of Texas, Austin, USA. His research focuses on algorithms and systems for enabling robots to navigate safely and efficiently among humans, like humans. Dr. Chandra obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in 2018 and 2022 from the University of Maryland, USA, advised by Dr. Dinesh Manocha, and completed his B.Tech at Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, India in 2016. His doctoral thesis focused on autonomous driving in dense, heterogeneous, and unstructured traffic environments.

As the awardee, Dr. Rohan Chandra will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Drones (ISSN: 2504-446X) before the end of 2024 following peer review, and an electronic certificate.

We would like to thank all of the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all of the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. Diego González-Aguilera, Editor-in-Chief
On behalf of the Drones 2023 Young Investigator Evaluation Committee