Shanmuka Sadhu

I am a first-year PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Prof. Nirupam Roy and work in the iCoSMos Lab.

Before that, I obtained my Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics at Rutgers University. During my undergraduate degree, I started in Robotics, working in Dr. Jingjin Yu's ARC Lab on Multi-Robot Path Planning with microbots. For the Summer of 2024, I worked on computer vision detection of magnetic millimeter-scale robots at Dr. Aaron Becker's lab at the University of Houston. During the Summer of 2025, I worked on audio event recognition with Dr. Weiran Wang at the University of Iowa. During my final semester at Rutgers, I completed an independent study on quantum-inspired computing with Dr. Minsung Kim. Due to early graduation, I began working with Dr. Nirupam Roy in the Spring of 2026.

My research interests lie in Physics-Informed decision making as well as Physics-Informed geometry design. I am also interested in multimodality and multisensory reasoning.

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News

  • 08/2026 I start as a PhD student at the University of Maryland.
  • 06/2026 I start research at the University of Technology Sydney as part of the NSF IRES program.

Publications

* denotes equal contribution.

Improving Consistency Improving Consistency Regularization using Consistency Regularization
Shanmuka Sadhu*, Weiran Wang
ICASSP 2026
arXiv / paper

Posters

Robust Ultrasound Robust Ultrasound Tracking of a Millirobot using Neural Networks and Particle Filters
Shanmuka Sadhu*, Yitong Lu, Julian Leclerc, Aaron T. Becker
2024 IUCRC Brain Symposium
poster
Improving Audio Event Recognition with Consistency Regularization Improving Audio Event Recognition with Consistency Regularization
Shanmuka Sadhu*, Weiran Wang
University of Iowa REU
poster

Other Research

Optimizing Restricted Optimizing Restricted Boltzmann Machines for Human Activity Recognition using Quantum-Inspired Computing
Shanmuka Sadhu*, Minsung Kim
paper
Task Decoding Task Decoding based on Eye Movements using Synthetic Data Augmentation
Shanmuka Sadhu*, Arca Baran*, Preeti Pandey, Ayush Kumar
arXiv

Awards

  • Dean's Fellowship, University of Maryland (2026, 2027)