Ninad Jadhav

Ninad Jadhav

Postdoctoral Fellow

Experience

Professional experience, education, recognition, service, and technical background.

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow

John A. Paulsen School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University — Cambridge, MA
June 2025–Present

Senior Autonomy Scientist

Grazen AI — Fremont, CA
December 2025–April 2026

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2025

John A. Paulsen School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University — Cambridge, MA

  • Thesis: Real-time Wireless Sensing at the Edge for In Situ Multi-Robot Deployment
  • Faculty adviser: Stephanie Gil, Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences

M.S. in Computer Science, 2019

Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University — Tempe, AZ

B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2014

SRM Institute of Science and Technology — Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Awards and Recognition

Professional Service

Ad hoc reviewer for:

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) — 2021, 2022
  • Autonomous Robots — 2023
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) — 2024, 2025
  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) — 2025
  • Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) — 2026
  • Science Robotics — 2026

Skills

  • Programming and engineering: C++, Python, Linux, MATLAB, CAD, Gazebo
  • Frameworks and protocols: ROS, ROS 2, SLAM, MAVSDK, MAVROS, MAVLink, PX4, ArduPilot
  • Robotic systems: LiDAR and camera sensing, ground and aerial robots, field robotics, software-defined radio, and drone peripherals over UART and I2C

Media