Parakh M. Gupta

I am a PhD student at Multi-Robot Systems Lab, Czech Technical University in Prague under the supervision of Dr. Martin Saska, Dr. Tiago Nascimento, and Dr. Robert Penicka. I work on control, navigation, and state-estimation for aerial vehicles (quadrotors) that are operating in collaboration with a marine vessel. Additionally, I am also working on pushing the envelope on fast and agile flights with quadrotors.

2020 and subsequently, COVID, was spent working on co-axial octarotors at FlyingBasket SRL in Italy where we engineered heavy-lift (160 kg TOW) aerial vehicles to deliver cargo in the mountainous regions of Südtirol.

I spent a year in Philadelphia at Kumar Lab(GRASP) at the University of Pennsylvania under the guidance of Dr. David Saldaña. We worked on building the world’s first modular aerial system ModQuad which can reconfigure mid-air(without landing).

I was born in Sikar, Rajasthan in India and I graduated from BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus with double majors i.e. Physics and Mechanical Engineering in an integrated dual-degree program for Bachelors and Masters(points for identifying my Masters major).

I spend a lot of my time listening to Jazz, Classical, and Electronic music in live and recorded forms. After work, you can find me at my bouldering gym , having a beer , or cooking something at home . Also found in galleries and museums gawking at paintings.