Suman Raj

I am currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at Globus Labs, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago. My research advisors are Prof. Ian Foster and Dr. Kyle Chard.

Prior to this, I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, under the supervision of Prof. Yogesh Simmhan. I have previously worked with the Data Platforms Team of Goldman Sachs and hold a B.Tech. (First Class with Distinction) from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India.

Research Focus: Systems for AI, Autonomous Systems, Agentic AI, Distributed Computing, Edge - Cloud Continuum

Publications

Ordered by most recent. Full and up-to-date list available here.

Journals/Conferences Articles

Suman Raj, Radhika Mittal, Rajiv Mayani, Pawel Zuk, Anirban Mandal, Michael Zink, Yogesh Simmhan and Ewa Deelman, AeroResQ: Resilient and Collaborative Escape Route Planning during Wildfires using Edge-accelerated UAVs, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) (Under Revision)
Suman Raj, Bhavani A Madhabhavi, Madhav Kumar, Prabhav Gupta and Yogesh Simmhan, NeoARCADE: Robust Calibration for Distance Estimation to Support Assistive Drone for the Visually Impaired, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS) (Under Revision)
Shashwat Jaiswal, Suman Raj, Subhajit Sidhanta and Yogesh Simmhan, AerialDB: A Lightweight Peer-to-Peer Spatio-Temporal Edge Datastore for UAV-Based Disaster Management, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), 2025
Suman Raj, Radhika Mittal, Harshil Gupta and Yogesh Simmhan, Adaptive Heuristics for Scheduling DNN Inferencing on Edge and Cloud for Personalized UAV Fleets, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 2025
Suman Raj, Rajdeep Singh, Kautuk Astu and Yogesh Simmhan, AeroDaaS: Towards an Application Programming Framework for Drones-as-a-Service, IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2025
Suman Raj, Harshil Gupta and Yogesh Simmhan, Scheduling DNN Inferencing on Edge and Cloud for Personalized UAV Fleets, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID), 2023
Suman Raj, Swapnil Padhi and Yogesh Simmhan, Ocularone: Exploring Drones-based Assistive Technologies for the Visually Impaired, Late-Breaking Work, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI EA), 2023
Mukund Mitra*, Suman Raj* and Shishir Kolathaya, Inverse Kinematics Analysis of Cassie Robot using Radial Basis Function Networks, International Symposium of Asian Control Association on Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Automation (IRIA), 2021 (Best Paper Award)

Workshops and Posters

Suman Raj, Bhavani A Madhabhavi, Kautuk Astu, Arnav A, Pratham M and Yogesh Simmhan, Ocularone-Bench: Benchmarking DNN Models on GPUs to Assist the Visually Impaired', IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems (ParSocial), in conjunction with IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2025
Suman Raj, Rajdeep Singh, Kautuk Astu and Yogesh Simmhan, Towards a Generalized SDK for a Programmable Drones-as-a-Service''}}, IEEE 31st International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics Workshop (HiPCW), 2024
Suman Raj and Yogesh Simmhan, Scalable Planning Platform for Orchestration of Autonomous Systems Across Edge-Cloud Continuum, Doctoral Showcase Archive of The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), 2024
Shashwat Jaiswal, Suman Raj, Subhajit Sidhanta and Yogesh Simmhan, A Lightweight, Mobility-Aware, Geospatial \& Temporal Data Store for Multi-UAV Systems, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing Workshops (CCGridW), 2023
Suman Raj and Yogesh Simmhan, Towards a Mobile App Platform for Personalized UAV Fleets using Edge and Cloud, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing Workshops (CCGridW), 2023
Suman Raj, Swapnil Padhi, Ruchi Bhoot, Prince Modi and Yogesh Simmhan, Perception-based Collision Avoidance for UAVs when Guiding the Visually Impaired, Late Breaking Results, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
Suman Raj, Harshil Gupta, Sougat Shome and Yogesh Simmhan, Real-Time Edge Analytics of Video Feeds from a UAV Fleet, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics Workshops (HiPCW), 2021

Career

Education

Ph.D. and M.Tech (Res), Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (Oct 2020 - Sept 2025)
- Prime Minister's Research Fellowship, CGPA: 9.4/10
- Thesis Advisor: Prof. Yogesh Simmhan
- Dissertation: Intelligent Orchestration of Autonomous Systems across Edge-Cloud Continuum
B.Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India (Aug 2015 - May 2019)
- First Class with Distinction, CGPA: 8.7/10
- Dissertation: Collision Avoidance of Multi-Agent Systems
Higher Secondary Certificate, St. Michael's High School, Patna, India (CBSE, 2014), Score: 95.2%
Secondary Certificate, St. Dominic Savio's High School, Patna, India (CBSE, 2012), CGPA: 10/10