Krishnanand N. Kaipa

Associate Professor

Dr. Krishnanand Kaipa is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Old Dominion University. Dr. Kaipa directs the Collaborative Robotics & Adaptive Machines (CRAM) Laboratory where his group actively conducts research in diverse fields including swarm intelligence, autonomous systems, human-robot collaboration, bio-inspired robotics, surgical robotics, and robotics in education. His research has received federal funding from National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research. Dr. Kaipa received his BE (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and his master’s and PhD degrees from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He pursued postdoctoral studies at University of Vermont and University of Maryland, where he was also a research assistant professor. Dr. Kaipa and his PhD advisor Dr. Ghose co-developed glowworm swarm optimization (GSO), a novel swarm intelligence algorithm that is recently gaining traction with diverse applications ranging from multimodal optimization and clustering to mobile sensor networks and swarm robotics. He has published one book on GSO and more than eighty papers in journals, book chapters, and refereed conference proceedings and has been awarded one US patent. He received best master thesis and best PhD thesis awards, best paper awards in international conferences, outstanding book chapter award, and outstanding teaching award for a graduate course at University of Maryland. Dr. Kaipa is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). He currently serves as the Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.