Nare Karapetyan

Nare Karapetyan is a postdoctoral associate at Maryland Robotics Center at University of Maryland (UMD) working with Dr. Dinesh Manocha.

She received her PhD from University of South Carolina (USC) in Computer Science. She was working in Autonomous Field Robotics Laboratory (AFRL) under supervision of Dr. Ioannis Rekleitis. Her research is on area coverage both for two and three dimensional areas, with particular applications in aquatic domain. She wants to enable more efficient and task oriented coverage techniques for environmental monitoring and survey operations. She sometimes draw inspiration from human expertise in performing specific tasks and try to adapt similar reasoning in algorithms She is developing for surface and underwater robots.