Dr. Shashi Shekhar Jha

• Current Affiliations

  • Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (IIT Ropar) , Jun'2025 - Present

  • Director, Technology Business Incubation Foundation IIT Ropar (TBIF-IIT Ropar), Sep'2021 - Present

  • Associate Faculty, School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering School (sAIDE) IIT Ropar, Apr'2024 - Present

  • Associate Faculty, Centre for Applied Research in Data Science (CARDS) IIT Ropar, Mar'2023 - Present 

• Past Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (IIT Ropar) , Oct'2018 - Jun'2025

  • Accredited Higher Degree Research Supervisor, Swinburne University of Technology Australia, Dec'2019  - Dec'2023

  • Research Scientist, Fujitsu-SMU Urban Computing and Engineering (UNiCEN) Corp. Lab Singapore, Aug'2016 - Sep'2018

  • Postdoc Research Intern, Accenture Technology Lab. Bangalore, Feb'2016 - Jul'2016

Education:

• Ph.D. - Computer Science and Engineering - 2016 (Department of CSE, IIT Guwahati)

• B.E. - Information Technology - 2010

Research Interests:

• Reinforcement Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Multiagent Systems, Multirobot/Multi-drone Systems

Contact:

• Department of CSE, S. Ramanujan Block, IIT Ropar (Main Campus), Birla Farm, Rupnagar - 140001

• shashi <i.e. my firstname at> iitrpr [.dot] ac [.] in

Publications (few latest ones):

[Check my google scholar page for full list of publications]

• Garg, Armaan, and Shashi Shekhar Jha. "Deep deterministic policy gradient based multi-UAV control for moving convoy tracking." Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 126 (EAAI 2023): 107099. | IF - 8.0 (2022)

• Garg, Armaan, and Shashi Shekhar Jha. "Decentralized Critical Area Coverage Using Multi-UAV System with Guided Explorations During Floods." In 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2023.

• Gupta, Sumeet, Shweta Jain, Shashi Shekhar Jha, Pao-Ann Hsiung, and Ming-Hung Wang. "Take Expert Advice Judiciously: Combining Groupwise Calibrated Model Probabilities with Expert Predictions." In ECAI 2023, pp. 956-963. IOS Press, 2023.

• Singh, Sagalpreet, Shweta Jain, and Shashi Shekhar Jha. "On subset selection of multiple humans to improve human-AI team accuracy." In Proceedings of the 2023 international conference on autonomous agents and multiagent systems AAMAS-23, pp. 317-325. 2023.

• Armaan Garg, Shashi Shekhar Jha, 2022. "Directed explorations during flood disasters using multi-UAV system." In 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), pp. 2154-2161. IEEE, 2022.

Voluntary Services:

• 2025 - AAAI (PC), AAMAS (PC),  ECAI2025 (PC), CODS-COMAD (PC), Advances In Robotics (SPC & Session Chair),  IEEE CASE (Reviewer)

• 2024 - IJCAI (PC), ECAI (PC),  IEEE CASE (Reviewer)

• 2023 - ECAI (PC & Session Chair), GenPlan (Workshop in NIPS - PC), Advances In Robotics (SPC & Session Chair)