Ramchander Bhaskara is a Ph.D. student currently in his 5th year of graduate studies. He earned his M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M in 2021, following a B.Tech in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from NIT Trichy, India. His research encompasses high-performance computing for sensing and state estimation, robotics, and computer graphics, with a current emphasis on FPGA development for digital signal processing and filtering schemes for optical sensors. Ram also gained valuable experience as a visiting student researcher in robotics at the Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech during Summer of 2023. He’s an avid chess and soccer enthusiast. Discover more at https://ram-bhaskara.github.