Sneha Ramshanker

GRADUATE INTERN

Sneha is a PhD student at Princeton University, researching how teams of robots can be used to inspect structures in space. Her primary work involves developing collective behavior algorithms that allow teams of robots to achieve more than the sum of their parts, similar to how biological collectives like ants and termites accomplish remarkable tasks by working together despite their individual simplicity. She adapts these bio-inspired ideas to the field of inspection, demonstrating how teams of robots can inspect complex 3D structures and showcasing these concepts using a swarm of AstroAnts.

Sneha is a recipient of the President’s Fellowship at Princeton University. She completed a Master’s in Physics (MPhys) at the University of Oxford, graduating with first-class honors. She specialized in Biophysics, Lasers, and Quantum Information Science, and developed an incremental path planner for robots to explore unknown terrains with limited sensor ranges as part of her master’s thesis.

Sneha is an avid 3D printing enthusiast and loves making random 3D printed structures. She has lived in five countries: Poland, USA, Netherlands, UK, and India. Outside of work, she loves to travel, cook, and play sports.