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Richie R. Suganda is a 3rd year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, working in the NAIL Lab (Networked Autonomous & Intelligent Systems Laboratory) under Dr. Bin Hu.

His research focuses on safe and intelligent autonomous systems, with interests spanning multi-robot coordination, control barrier functions, perception-aware planning, and embedded AI. He bridges theory and real-world deployment, developing algorithms for safety-critical robot control, autonomous navigation, and efficient machine learning on resource-constrained platforms.

He is passionate about building systems that are not only intelligent, but also reliable, scalable, and practical for real-world applications.

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