Sandeep Chinchali

Sandeep Chinchali serves as an Assistant Professor and Jack Kilby/Texas Instruments Endowed Faculty Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, with core affiliations in the Texas Robotics Consortium, Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG), and Swarm Lab.

His academic journey includes a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University (2020) under advisors Sachin Katti and Marco Pavone, preceded by undergraduate studies at Caltech where he worked on robotics at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Prior to doctoral studies, he pioneered data science at Uhana (a Stanford startup acquired by VMWare) as their first principal data scientist.

Research centers on collaborative perception systems where robot fleets and cloud infrastructure jointly optimize swarm robotics, edge computing, and wireless networking, with emphasis on energy-efficient deep learning for real-time decision-making in distributed environments.

Key recognitions include:

• Stanford Graduate Fellowship
• National Science Foundation Fellowship

His ongoing work involves the university's New 6G Research Center—uniting industry partners with UT wireless experts—and leadership of the Swarm Lab, which develops frameworks for multi-robot coordination through novel networking paradigms.