Srikrishna Acharya

I am a Senior Research Specialist at Nokia (ST NSD Radio Interface & Access Group RIAG), based in Bengaluru, India. Previously, I was a PhD Scholar at IISc.

During my time as PhD Scholar at Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems , co advised by Prof Bharadwaj Amrutur and Prof Yogesh Simmhan. Currently I am part of Autonomous Machines Lab, where we explore wide range of problems include, but not limited to, collaborative robotics, Learning based Robots, and Network enabled Multi-Robot Systems. My primary research focus is to build co-simulation framework that capture the complete cyber-physical systems aspects of the multi-robot systems.

I did my master's in VLSI and Embedded Systems at IIIT-Delhi, Delhi. During my course I worked as Research Intern at Advance Systems and Technology (AST) Group, STMicroelectronics, where I worked on various research problems in the area of 3D computer graphics and image processing. The primary focus of the team is to work on open-source tools and research papers and integrating them into their existing tools. My course project is to minimize usage of sensors(IMU) for rendering realistic 3D-Avatar using physics simulation¹, where I was advised by Dr. P.B Sujit.

I have a batchelor's degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from GPREC, Kurnool.
If you wish to sponsor my work or want to know more about my work, you can contribute to my github sponsor account and to how more about the work I am doing please refer to the links to the left.

Experience

Senior Research Specialist
Nokia – Full-time – Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Hybrid)
Aug 2022 – present
ST NSD Radio Interface & Access Group (RIAG)

PhD Scholar
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) – Bengaluru Area, India
Aug 2017 - Jul 2022

Technical Associate
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) – Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems (RBCCPS)
Jul 2016 - Jul 2017
I was a Technical Associate at Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems. We, as a group, work on various inter-disciplinary projects related to smart neighborhoods. I am part of IoT for Smart City Task Force (iot4sctf), a technology-driven open forum of domain experts from industry, academia, government, startups, professional bodies, and user agencies.

Associate, Technology
Zenatix Solutions – Gurgaon, India
Oct 2014 - May 2016
I was one of the initial employees helped to conceptualize and develop the hardware at Zenatix. My primary responsibility to solve real time problems by designing simple hardware, related firmware, and ensuring it's robust operations in the field.

Assistant Professor
Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat – Waknaghat, Solan
Jul 2014 - Sep 2014
Teaching and mentoring B. Tech students.

Research Intern
STMicroelectronics – Noida
Jul 2013 - Jun 2014
Under Joint Collaborative MTech program by IIIT-Delhi and STMicroelectronics, I completed my thesis entitled "Realistic Rendering of 3D Avatar Using Physics Simulation and Minimal Sensors".

Teaching Assistant
IIIT-Delhi – New Delhi Area, India
Aug 2012 - Jun 2013
As part of my MTech program, I worked as a Teaching Assistant. Over two semesters, I supported Linear Algebra and Computer Organization courses and was involved in tutorials, lab exercises, quizzes, and evaluation.

Assistant System Engineer – Trainee
Tata Consultancy Services – (location not specified)
Mar 2012 - Jul 2012
Trained in ASP.Net.

Certifications

Data Operations Practitioner Training
appliedAI Initiative GmbH
Issued: 12 December 2025 Does not expire
credential

Publications

Rapid prototyping of Industry 4.0 use cases for warehouse automation using a Network-Robot Co-Simulation Framework
Srikrishna Acharya, Parv Maheshwari, Mukunda Bharatheesa, Amrutur Bharadwaj, Yogesh Simmhan
Arxiv | Yet to be publish

CORNET2.0: A Co-Simulation Middleware for Robot Networks
Srikrishna Acharya*, Amrutur Bharadwaj, Mukunda Bharatheesa, Yogesh Simmhan
COMSNETS 2022 | 2022 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS)
paper | presentation | cite | github |

A Co-Simulation Framework for Communication and Control in Autonomous Multi-Robot Systems
Srikrishna Acharya*, Mukunda Bharatheesha, Yogesh Simmhan, Bharadwaj Amrutur
IROS | 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
paper | presentation | cite | github |

Network Emulation For Tele-driving Application Development
Srikrishna Acharya*, S Sadgun S Devanahalli , Alok Rawat, Varghese P Kuruvilla, Pratik Sharma, Bharadwaj Amrutur, Ashish Joglekar, Raghu Krishnapuram, Yogesh Simmhan, Himanshu Tyagi
COMSNETS 2021 | 2021 International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS)
demo paper | presentation | cite | github |

Network Based Multi-Bot Awareness
G Dhanaprakaash, Bishal Jaiswal, Srikrishna Acharya*, Anush Kumar, Aruul Mozhi Varman, Kavish Shah, Mohitvishnu Srinivas Gadde, Sourav Mishra, Aditya Gopalan, Bharadwaj Amrutur, Himanshu Tyagi, Preetam Patil, Raghu Krishnapuram, Soumya Subhra Banerjee, Suresh Sundaram
COMSNETS 2021 | 2021 International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS)
poster | presentation | cite | github |

CORNET: A Co-Simulation Middleware for Robot Networks
Srikrishna Acharya*, Amrutur Bharadwaj, Yogesh Simmhan, Aditya Gopalan, Parimal Parag , Himanshu Tyagi
COMSNETS 2020 | 2020 International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS)
paper | presentation | cite | github |

PUF based secure framework for hardware and software security of drones
Vishal Pal, Srikrishna Acharya*, Somesh Shrivastav, Sourav Saha, Ashish Joglekar, Bharadwaj Amrutur
AsianHOST | 2020 Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST)
short paper | presentation | cite | github |

Talks

CORNET2.0: A Co-Simulation Middleware for Robot Networks - Mr. Srikrishna Acharya
This talk is part of 'Student Research Seminar Series, 2021', an IEEE-IISc ComSoc & IEEE-IISc SPS collaborative event.
IEEE-IISc ComSoc Chapter
video| abstract

Next-Generation Communications and Networking
A Brainstorming Workshop on “Next-Generation Communications and Networking” is organised in hybrid mode by DRDO Industry Academia Raman Centre of Excellence (DIA-RCoE) IISc Bangalore and TIFAC at IISc Bangalore.
DIA-RCoE