Ravi Kumar Thakur is a graduate student in the aerospace engineering department.  His interest is in the field of aerospace robotics and autonomy. He graduated with an MS(Research) degree in Electronics and Communication from the Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City, Chittoor in 2019. For his thesis, he worked on developing machine learning-based models for estimating scene flow from stereo images. He earned his BS in Engineering Physics from National Institute of Technology Calicut in 2014. In the past, he has worked on driver assistant technology with a focus on visual odometry and object tracking, human-agent teaming. Outside research, he likes cycling, running and trekking.