Akshar S. Chavan

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. I work in the Energy-Aware Systems Lab (EAS-Lab) and am advised by Dr. Marco Brocanelli. My research lies at the intersection of autonomous systems, edge computing, and cyber-physical systems, with a focus on designing systems that operate efficiently under constraints in computation, communication, energy, and physical capability.

A central theme of my work is developing resource-aware, safety-aware, and physics-aware algorithms that account for the long-term effects of autonomy, including battery degradation, hardware limitations, and environmental uncertainty. My goal is to enable autonomous systems that are not only high-performing, but also reliable, efficient, and sustainable over extended operation.

I validate these ideas through both algorithmic design and experimental systems, including real-world robotic platforms and hardware-in-the-loop testing. My work has appeared in venues such as IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and Networks.

In addition to research, I am actively involved in teaching and mentoring, having served as an Instructor of Record and as a mentor to undergraduate and graduate researchers. I am interested in pursuing a faculty career focused on building a research program in sustainable and dependable autonomous systems.